IRELAND WILL CONSIDER Bundee Aki for selection in the closing two rounds of the upcoming Six Nations, with the Connacht centre to miss the first three games of the championship due to a suspension. Aki was banned for four games for directing “verbal abuse and disrespect” at the match officials in charge of Connacht’s defeat to Leinster in the URC last weekend. An independent disciplinary panel found that Aki did so on “several occasions” after the game in Galway. But Aki could come into contention again for the closing two games of Ireland’s campaign against Wales and Scotland in Dublin. Last year, Ireland international Mack Hansen was banned for three games for criticising the match officials involved in Connacht’s URC defeat to Leinster in Dublin.