{"id":455587,"date":"2026-03-03T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:07","slug":"six-nations-2026-ireland-v-wales-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455587\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Ireland v Wales &#8211; all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland are hunting a fifth straight win against Wales, a run that goes back to the 2021 fixture behind closed doors at Principality Stadium in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That success ended a four-game Irish streak that went back to the 2019 Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have not won in Dublin since a World Cup warm-up in 2015, while their last Six Nations success was in 2012 courtesy of Leigh Halfpenny&#8217;s last-gasp penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales produced an encouraging performance when beaten 27-18 in Cardiff last year when interim coach Matt Sherratt was calling the shots after the exit of Warren Gatland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last meeting in Dublin was a comprehensive 31-7 victory for Ireland, when Dan Sheehan, James Lowe, Tadhg Beirne and Ciaran Frawley scored tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; defence has been cause for concern &#8211; England, France and Scotland all won with bonus points &#8211; and they will hope to avoid a repeat of the 2002 trip to Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That fixture at Lansdowne Road remains the record for points scored by Ireland (54) and their largest winning margin (44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland are hunting a fifth straight win against Wales, a run that goes back to the 2021 fixture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455587","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=455587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}