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Six Nations: Your guide to the weekend coverage

Michael Corcoran will be in Rome for Italy v Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday
Michael Corcoran will be in Rome for Italy v Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday

The RBS 6 Nations returns this Friday and RTÉ will again have extensive TV, Radio and Online coverage of every single game in 2015.

It all kicks off on Friday night in Cardiff when Wales face England. That is followed by Ireland's visit to Italy on Saturday afternoon and France against Scotland that evening.

See below for all our commentary teams and panellists for the weekend.

Fri 6 Feb: Wales v England, Millennium Stadium, 8.05pm

On Friday night from 7.30pm, we will be live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player with the opening game of the 2015 Six Nations, Tom McGuirk will be joined in studio by George Hook, Shane Horgan & Ronan O’Gara for Wales v England.

Ryle Nugent and Conor O'Shea will be in the commentary box to bring you all the action from Cardiff. Kick off is at 8.05pm.

Sat 7 Feb: Italy v Ireland, Stadio Olimpico, 2.30pm

On Saturday at 1.30pm we are back on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player for the build-up to the main event from an Irish point of view.

Joining Tom McGuirk on the studio panel for Ireland v Italy will be George Hook, Brent Pope and Ronan O’Gara.

Hugh Cahill and Ralph Keys will be on commentary in Rome, with Donal Lenihan and Shane Horgan providing pitchside analysis.

If you are following the game overseas, Michael Corcoran will be joined by Donal Lenihan for live worldwide commentary on RTÉ Radio 1.

Our live blog will be manned by Brendan Cole in Dublin and Tadhg Peavoy in Rome, with video highlights of all the best moments made available online as the game progresses.

Sat 7 Feb: France v Scotland, Stade de France, 5pm

Finishing off the first round of games in the 2015 Six Nations will be France v Scotland.

George Hamilton and Bernard Jackman will be at the Stade de France for this one, with kick off scheduled for 5pm.

There will be live blogs on every game this weekend on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News Now app, as well as video highlights of the best of the weekend's action and analysis from Opta Stats.

And as always you can follow live updates via @rterugby on Twitter and the RTÉ Rugby Facebook page.

Six Nations Week 2

Sat 14 Feb: England v Italy (1430)
Sat 14 Feb: Ireland v France (1700) 
Sun 15 Feb: Scotland v Wales (1500)    

Six Nations Week 3

Sat 28 Feb: Scotland v Italy (1430)        
Sat 28 Feb: France v Wales (1700)
Sun 1 Mar: Ireland v England (1500)         

Six Nations Week 4

Sat 14 Mar: Wales v Ireland (1430)
Sat 14 Mar: England v Scotland (1700)          
Sun 15 Mar: Italy v France (1500) 

Six Nations Week 5

Sat 21 Mar: Italy v Wales (1230)
Sat 21 Mar: Scotland v Ireland (1430)
Sat 21 Mar: England v France  (1700)