Green light for Ireland’s Six Nations finale

Ireland’s provinces return to action on August 22 for the first of the final two weekends of the Guinness PRO14 regular season

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The resumption of Ireland’s 2020 Six Nations campaign has been given the green light following confirmation of the proposed temporary 2020 Covid-19 international rugby calendar by the World Rugby Council.

World Rugby’s executive committee last week announced its proposals to resume Test rugby in October following its suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic with temporary global player release from clubs between October 24 to the first weekend in December and a Rugby Championship window between November 7 and the second weekend of December.