First start of campaign for Sam Monaghan in Ireland's Aviva showpiece

Scott Bemand has team for Ireland's meeting with Scotland in Sunday's historic final-round clash at Aviva Stadium.

Sam Monaghan during an Ireland Women's Rugby squad training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Former captain Sam Monaghan has been handed her first start of Ireland’s Guinness Women’s Six Nations campaign for Sunday’s historic final-round clash with Scotland at Aviva Stadium.

Ireland are bidding to record their third victory of the campaign for the first time since 2020 and having beaten Italy in Galway in round two and Wales in Belfast last time out, Scott Bemand’s team are set to play their first standalone game at the Aviva, with a women’s home record 30,000 tickets already sold for the Round 5 clash.