IRELAND will take on Australia in Brisbane this Saturday morning in the first of three Test matches this summer. Here's everything you need to know about the match: 3 Ireland will play their first match since their Grand Slam victory What time is the match on? The match will kick off at 11am Irish time (8.00pm local time) on Saturday June 9th at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia. What TV channel is the match on? The match will be shown live by Sky Sports on their Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Action channels with coverage starting a 10.45am on both. Sky TV customers can live stream the match on the Sky Go app. 3 Australia lost their last two matches in 2017 Credit: AFP or licensors What is the team news? IRELAND: Rob Kearney, Keith Earls, Robbie Henshaw, Bundee Aki, Jacob Stockdale, Joey Carbery, Conor Murray; Jack McGrath, Rob Herring, John Ryan, James Ryan, Iain Henderson, Peter O'Mahony (c), Jordi Murphy, CJ Stander. AUSTRALIA: Israel Folau, Marika Koroibete, Samu Kerevi, Kurtley Beale, Dane Haylett Petty, Bernard Foley, Will Genia; Scott Sio, Brandon Paenga Amosa, Sekope Kepu, Izack Rodda, Adam Coleman, David Pocock, Michael Hooper (c), Caleb Timu. What are the odds? Ireland are the very slight favourites to win the opening match of the series at the price of 20/23. Australia are 21/20 to win game one while the draw is priced at 20/1. 3 Joey Carbery has been given the start for Ireland When are the remaining tests? The second test of the series will take place on Saturday June 16th at AAMI Park in Melbourne. The third and final test will be played the following Saturday on June 23rd at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney. What form are both teams in? This tour comes at an incredible time for Irish rugby at both the international and provincial level. Joe Schmidt's side completed an historic Grand Slam during this year's Six Nations, capped with a memorable victory over England at Twickenham on St. Patrick's Day. 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Australia ended 2017 by winning three of their last five, suffering disappointing defeats against Scotland and England. However the month prior the Wallabies recorded a memorable victory over New Zealand in Brisbane.<doc-sep>Ireland are aiming to complete a dream season on the pitch by winning a three-test series in Australia for the first time. Read on for details on where to watch Ireland vs Australia and some good news: you don't have to get up too early to watch it. Where to watch Ireland vs Australia? The first Test is live from 10.45am on Sky Sports Main Event on Saturday monring, with kick off in Brisbane at 11am. What's the Irish team likely to be? It has yet to be announced, although The Irish Times tend to get a hint at the team the day before it is named. With that in mind, it looks like Joe Schmidt is set to experiment somewhat, in spite of the fact that he has brought a full-strength squad Down Under. (The exception is Rory Best, who misses out through injury). It's anticipated that Munster-bound Joey Carbery will start at out-half, as Schmidt looks to deepen his options in that position ahead of the next year's World Cup. Elsewhere, the paper reports that Gary Ringrose, Dan Leavy, and the first-choice front-row will be replaced by Robbie Henshaw, Jordi Murphy, Jack McGrath, Rob Herring and John Ryan. Are Australia in good form? Advertisement Nope. Pretty rotten form, in fact. They ended last season with an appalling tour of Europe in which they were eviscerated 53-24 by Scotland and also beaten by Eddie Jones' misfiring England, losing 30-6. They finished second in last year's Rugby Championships, although were distant runners-up to New Zealand. Added to all of this, the sport has been thrown into controversy by homophobic comments made by their star and talisman, Israel Folau. So all in all, far from ideal preparation for Michael Cheika and co. Does that make Ireland favourites? Just about. The bookies make Ireland narrow, two-point favourites for the first Test in Brisbane. So a reminder on where to watch Ireland vs Australia: it is live on Sky Sports Main Event from 10.45am on Saturday morning, with kick-off at 11am. You can follow it on Balls - we'll have player ratings and the best of the action as it happens.<doc-sep>Ireland face Australia today in their first of three Test matches Down Under. Joe Schmidt's men face the Wallabies in Brisbane ahead of further games in Melbourne and Sydney. The Irish players were pictured enjoying some down time earlier this week, but it will be serious business here. The big news in the Ireland team is that Joey Carbery starts at number ten. Here's the starting XV for both sides: Australia: Folau; Koroibete, Kerevi, Beale, Haylett-Petty; Foley, Genia; Sio, Paenga-Amosa, Kepu, Rodda, Coleman, Pocock, Hooper, Timu. Ireland: R Kearney; Earls, Henshaw, Aki, Stockdale; Carbery, Murray; McGrath, Herring, Jo Ryan, Henderson, Ja Ryan, O'Mahony, Murphy, Stander. If you haven't already, be sure to like our Irish Mirror Sport and Irish Mirror GAA pages on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.<doc-sep>
Ireland begin their tour of Australia with their first Test match this weekend. Joe Schmidt's men have been pictured enjoying the sunshine Down Under since arriving there last Thursday, but they'll be hoping to get the job done in their opening match. Here's everything you need to know about the game: Where and when is it? The clash takes place at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday, June 9. (Image: Inpho) What time does it start at? The match will get underway at 11am, Irish time. What channel is it on? Sky Sports Main Event will show the match live, with their coverage getting underway at 10.45am. Quotes corner Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt: "There's a small risk for us with just the three midfielders. "At the same time, there are guys like Sam Arnold and Rory Scannell, and Stu McCloskey, who had a really strong end to the season. "They add to that depth. If we could have taken more away, we probably would have taken another one of those three. (Image: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan) "But one of the limitations is you can only take so many, you can only provide opportunities to so many so therefore the opportunity pathway is through the provincial games. "And that's why we take such a close interest in some of those great games that were played towards the end of the season. "I think straight after the Six Nations we saw two of the best provincial games I've seen in quite some time." Betting odds Australia win: 11/10 Ireland win: 5/6 Draw: 20/1 If you haven't already, be sure to like our Irish Mirror Sport and Irish Mirror GAA pages on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.