Ireland v Wales: All You Need To Know

GUINNESS SIX NATIONS

Ireland v Wales, Aviva Stadium, 2.15pm

TV

The match is live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player with coverage starting at 1pm.

ONLINE

We'll have a live match tracker with analysis and match clips on rte.ie/sport, RTÉ Rugby Twitter and RTÉ Sport Facebook.

RADIO

The game is live on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1.

WEATHER

There is rain forecast for tomorrow afternoon in Dublin, Temperature around 8C with a wind of around 38km/h.

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And so, it begins.

Six Nations rugby returns to Dublin with a live audience for the first time since February 2020.

It's been a long two years.

And there’s rarely been such a sense of anticipation surrounding a campaign as there is for this one. But that’s actually not so much down to the possibility of silverware as much as for what a new-look Ireland can offer in the battles that lie ahead.

It may have taken some time but Andy Farrell, who took over at the back end of 2019, has stamped his own identity of the team and the performances against England last March, and against New Zealand in the autumn have got the juices flowing.

Ireland are not playing with reckless abandon but certainly without the fear of getting a bollocking if an offload goes astray. With the skillset of the squad now much improved, they have been reaping benefits from expanding their game.

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It’s hard to think of an Ireland team that had some many footballers across its ranks and playing to their strengths has become the mark of the team.

The campaign gets under way