Ireland aim to 'dismantle' Scottish pack at Murrayfield 

The back-to-back Six Nations champions got their 2025 campaign, and life under interim head coach Simon Easterby, up and running with a 27-22 bonus-point victory over England

LOCKED AND LOADED: Ireland scrum coach John Fogarty. Picture: Ben Brady/Inpho

Ireland’s forwards will go to Murrayfield this Sunday tasked with “dismantling” Scotland’s pack to keep their Guinness Six Nations title defence alive.

Wednesday’s media session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Abbottstown, west Dublin, saw a string of players and assistant coach John Fogarty heap praise on the Scots’ “world-class backline” steered by fly-half Finn Russell yet there is a belief within the Irish camp that their forward pack can be a point of difference in Edinburgh when they bid for an 11th successive victory over their Celtic cousins.