I te 23 o Hanuere 2017, i whakaingoatia a Stander ki te kapa o Ireland mo nga rauna tuatahi e rua o te 2017 Six Nations Championship. I te 11 o Hui-tanguru 2017, i eke a Stander ki te whiringa toa o nga whakamatautau i te wikitoria 63 × 10 a Ireland ki a Itari i te Stadio Olimpico, Roma, i whiwhi i te tohu Man-of-the-Match. Koinei te hat-trick tuatahi i eke mai i te rarangi o muri o Ireland mai i a Brian Robinson ki a Zimbabwe i te 1991 Rugby World Cup. Koia hoki te hat-trick tuatahi i eke e tētahi kaitākaro o Īrana i te Six Nations mai i a Brian O'Driscoll i te Scotland i te 2002
te whakataetae. Hei taapiri, koinei te hat-trick tuatahi i tuhia e tetahi kaikawe i roto i te hitori o te Whakataetae Ono Whenua me te tuatahi na tetahi kaikawe mai i te Frenchman a Michel Crauste i te 1962 Five Nations Championship. Ko te hoa kapa a Stander, a Craig Gilroy, i eke ki te whutupaoro i te tukinga, i waiho ai a Ireland hei kapa tuatahi mai i Ingarangi i te tau 1914 kia rua nga whutupaoro whutupaoro i roto i te takaro o nga Whenua e rima, e ono ranei. I te 18 o Poutu-te-rangi 2017, i huri a Stander ki te Nama 8 mo Ireland i te wa i wehe atu ai a Jamie Heaslip i te keemu ki Ingarangi i te wa o te whakamahana. I haere a Ireland ki te wikitoria i te keemu i te Aviva Stadium 13<unk>9 a, na reira, i whakakahoretia a Ingarangi i nga Grand Slams e ono i nga Whenua e Ono. Whai muri i ana whakaaturanga i te whakataetae, i whakaingoatia a Stander mo te 2017 RBS 6 Nations Player of the Championship, i te taha o tana hoa kapa a Conor Murray.