{"id":133802,"date":"2025-09-13T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133802\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:31:10","slug":"ireland-womens-rugby-team-to-play-first-stand-alone-game-at-aviva-stadium-in-2026-six-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133802\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland women&#8217;s rugby team to play first stand-alone game at Aviva Stadium in 2026 Six Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland co-captain Sam Monaghan says that the game will be &#8220;very special&#8221; for the players and credits her team-mates, supporters and the IRFU for making it happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s huge for us. It is something we have aspired to these last few years and when Scott first came in, we mapped out places we wanted to go and that was one of them, so to see that come to fruition is amazing,&#8221; Monaghan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To have a game in the Aviva is amazing and very special. We are really looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland will open their 2026 Women&#8217;s Six Nations against holders England at Twickenham on Saturday, 11 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will then host Italy on Saturday, 18 April before travelling to France on Saturday, 25 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They conclude with back-to-back home fixtures against Wales on Saturday, 9 May and the visit of Scotland to Aviva Stadium on Sunday, 17 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland&#8217;s home venues for games against Italy and Wales are to still to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland co-captain Sam Monaghan says that the game will be &#8220;very special&#8221; for the players and credits her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-133802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}