{"id":555735,"date":"2026-07-18T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:53:12","slug":"all-blacks-v-ireland-live-blog-follow-our-coverage-from-eden-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555735\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks v Ireland: LIVE BLOG, follow our coverage from Eden Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go; it\u2019s the All Blacks versus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/ireland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> in the Nations Championship, with the two nations colliding at the Fortress that is Eden Park.<\/p>\n<p>The fixture will be Dave Rennie\u2019s first at the iconic ground since taking over as head coach of the team from Scott Robertson. As for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/ireland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a>, they will be looking to make history tonight as they bid to become the first team since France in 1994 to beat the All Blacks at their Fortress.<\/p>\n<p>All Blacks v Ireland live blog<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> defend the longest unbeaten run in the history of international rugby, having won 50 and drawn two of their matches since losing to France 32 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down past the teamsheets to follow our live blog of the action.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand: 15 Damian McKenzie, 14 Will Jordan, 13 Quinn Tupaea, 12 Jordie Barrett, 11 Josh Moorby, 10 Ruben Love, 9 Cam Roigard, 8 Ardie Savea (c), 7 Luke Jacobson, 6 Tupou Vaa\u2019i, 5 Patrick Tuipulotu, 4 Josh Lord, 3 Tyrel Lomax, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Ethan de Groot<br \/>Replacements: 16 Asafo Aumua, 17 Xavier Numia, 18 Fletcher Newell, 19 Anton Segner, 20 Peter Lakai, 21 Cortez Ratima, 22 Anton Lienert-Brown, 23 Caleb Clarke<\/p>\n<p class=\"px-3 xs:px-4 mt-3 mb-2 font-semibold leading-snug text-base text-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/all-blacks-team-winners-and-losers-as-beauden-barretts-world-cup-hopes-at-great-risk-while-dave-rennie-potentially-makes-huge-mistake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks team: Winners and losers as Beauden Barrett\u2019s World Cup hopes at \u2018great risk\u2019 while Dave Rennie potentially makes \u2018huge mistake\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ireland: 15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Robert Baloucoune, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Stuart McCloskey, 11 Jimmy O\u2019Brien, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 Jack Conan, 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Tadhg Beirne, 5 James Ryan, 4 Joe McCarthy, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Dan Sheehan (c), 1 Tom O\u2019Toole<br \/>Replacements: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Jeremy Loughman, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Nick Timoney, 20 Sean Jansen, 21 Craig Casey, 22 Ciaran Frawley, 23 Bundee Aki<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasters: ITV (United Kingdom), TF1 (France), Virgin Media Television (Republic of Ireland), Sky Italia (Italy), Wowow (Japan), Sky Sport (New Zealand), Nine Network \/ Stan Sport (Australia), SuperSport (South Africa)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here we go; it\u2019s the All Blacks versus Ireland in the Nations Championship, with the two nations colliding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1100,61,3859,60,86133,1261,43],"class_list":["post-555735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-internationals","tag-ireland","tag-nations-championship","tag-new-zealand","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}