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RTÉ Sport announce full details of 2017 RBS 6 Nations, Women’s 6 Nations and U20’s 6 Nations coverage across TV, Radio, Online and Mobile

 

First up Joanne Cantwell presents Scotland v Ireland in the Women’s 6 Nations followed by the Irish U20’s also against Scotland, with all the action kicking off at 6.30pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player will have full live coverage of all of Ireland’s games in both the Women’s and U20’s 6 Nations championships throughout their respective campaigns.

Then on Saturday (Saturday 4 February, 1.30pm, RTÉ2/ RTÉ Player) Daire O’Brien will be joined by Brent Pope, Ronan O’Gara and Shane Horgan for live coverage from Murrayfield as Ireland travel to take on Scotland in the RBS 6 Nations followed by England v France from Twickenham.

On Sunday (1.30pm, RTÉ2/RTÉ Player) Brent Pope, Eddie O’Sullivan and Ronan O’Gara will join Daire for live coverage from Rome of Italy v Wales.

This weekend RTÉ Radio 1’s Saturday Sport (2.00pm) will have full live commentary of Scotland v Ireland in the RBS 6 Nations while Sunday Sport (2.00pm) will have 6 Nations reports and a review of the weekend’s action. Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport will have live coverage of all of Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations games as the tournament progresses while RTÉ 2fm’s Game On will also feature interviews, reports and the best of analysis.

Against the Head returns to RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Monday (February 6, 8.00pm) when Joanne Cantwell alongside Donal Lenihan and Eddie O’Sullivan will take a look back at the first weekend’s action in the RBS 6 Nations. (Repeated Tuesday 7 February at 11.25pm on RTÉ2/RTÉ Player)

The live action, reports and analysis continue throughout all three championships culminating with Ireland v England from the Aviva Stadium in the RBS 6 Nations on Sunday 19 March on RTÉ2, RTÉ Player and on Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1.

RTÉ’s dedicated 6 Nations website www.rte.ie/sixnations will have pre-match analysis, live blogs, reports and all of the big match fall-out and analysis from every game in the 2017 RBS 6 Nations. Madigan on Monday is Ian Madigan’s post-6 Nations column looking back at the game just gone, and of course you can find all of the news and views on RTÉ Sport’s extensive social media coverage on Twitter (@rterugby) and Facebook (RTÉ Rugby).

The RTÉ Rugby Podcast, presented by Hugh Cahill, will be available each Thursday evening, focussed on the 6 Nations for the duration of the competition

RTÉ2’s RBS 6 Nations, Ireland U20’s and Women’s 6 Nations matches and coverage will be available to view live and on-demand on RTÉ Player with the biggest moments from each weekend available every Monday.  RTÉ Player will also show match highlights, post-match interviews, the best of analysis from RTÉ Rugby’s expert panel and RTÉ News reports of team announcements and press conferences as they happen.  Also gain some insight into each rival’s past with a Classic Game available to watch every Wednesday.