{"id":309376,"date":"2026-01-29T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:10:11","slug":"six-nations-blow-confirmed-as-irelands-bundee-aki-hit-with-four-game-ban-for-verbally-abusing-match-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309376\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations blow confirmed as Ireland\u2019s Bundee Aki hit with four-game ban for verbally abusing match officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bundee Aki during the 2025 Six Nations match between Ireland and France at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/200f7db0-ba5f-47b6-aa7a-edf7488f7604.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bundee Aki during the 2025 Six Nations match between Ireland and France at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The headaches are mounting for Andy Farrell ahead of next week\u2019s Six Nations opener against France, with URC officials tonight confirming that Bundee Aki will be suspended for Ireland\u2019s first three games against France, Italy and England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aki had been stood down from the Ireland squad earlier today, with the IRFU denouncing his behaviour towards the match officials in the wake of Connacht\u2019s 34-23 defeat to Leinster last Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bundee Aki during the 2025 Six Nations match between Ireland and France at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70904,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,34991,11,12,15,16,5,4934,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-309376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115977140857065499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}