We need to be far more ruthless, says Reddan

EOIN Reddan would rather have had a more comfortable afternoon at Murrayfield on Sunday but he’s more than ready to look to the positives of a second away win of this RBS 6 Nations campaign.

The Leinster scrum-half, standing in for the injured Tomás O’Leary, scored the first try of his international career in his 27th Ireland appearance as Scotland were beaten 21-18 in Edinburgh.

The victory did nothing to answer questions of Irish indiscipline at the breakdown as the Scots were kept in the game with five penalty kicks despite being outscored three tries to nil. Ireland may have managed to turn a 21-9 lead after 53 minutes into a grim battle for survival yet Reddan saw plenty of good points in the way Ireland defended.