Unchanged Ireland still wary of Scots

EDDIE O’SULLIVAN yesterday went close to admitting that he has never had an easier task in selecting an Irish side.

To nobody’s surprise, he has chosen an unchanged starting XV for the Triple Crown visit to Murrayfield on Saturday, insisting there wasn’t “a compelling reason” for changing the team that so spectacularly humiliated England at Croke Park.

If there was an issue, it would have been at hooker where Rory Best holds off the challenge of Jerry Flannery, based largely on the fact that the Ulsterman has done nothing wrong, a whole lot right and the team by and large has kept winning. A further indication of the strength of depth available to the coach is that Geordan Murphy has once again failed to find a place in the 22.