Scotland vs Ireland: The last 10 meetings at Murrayfield

2023 Six Nations: Scotland 7 Ireland 22

Ireland overcame a 7-3 deficit and the loss of Caelan Doris, Dan Sheehan and Iain Henderson by the 25th minute to lead 8-7 at the interval, then patched up Rónan Keleher’s shoulder and made contingency plans. Andy Farrell and Johnny Sexton embraced the setbacks, with Josh van der Flier assuming the throwing and Cian Healy revisiting his Belvo school days at hooker. Tries by James Lowe and Jack Conan sealed the penultimate leg of a Grand Slam.

2021 Six Nations: Scotland 24 Ireland 27

After opening defeats away to Wales and at home to France, Ireland were heavily indebted to the boot of Johnny Sexton for a hard-earned win. Robbie Henshaw and Finn Russell traded scrappy first-half tries before Sexton extended the visitors’ 14-10 interval lead to 24-10 when he converted a Tadhg Beirne try and landed a penalty. But tries by Huw Jones and Hamish Watson drew the sides level before Sexton kicked a difficult penalty from the left touchline.

2019 Six Nations: Scotland 13 Ireland 22

Joey Carbery breaks for Ireland at Murrayfield. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty

Ireland, reigning champions, had been derailed by England’s 32-20 win in Dublin and Scotland had been unbeaten at home in the championship for three years. Early tries by Conor Murray and Jacob Stockdale earned a 12-0 lead before Finn Russell intercepted a pass by Joey Carbery, a 26th-minute replacement for Sexton, to set up Sam Johnson’s try. But Carbery’s crucial break and pass set up Keith Earls’s try before the former nailed a clinching penalty.

2017 Six Nations: Scotland 27 Ireland 22

Much to Joe Schmidt’s chagrin, Ireland’s bus journey to the ground was delayed and Ireland trailed 21-5 by the half-hour mark thanks to two tries from Stuart Hogg and one by Alex Dunbar from a trick lineout play. Henderson and Paddy Jackson added to an earlier try by Earls in a 17-point salvo to push Ireland in front but, despite having 70 per cent possession in the second half, Greig Laidlaw’s two late penalties sealed a raucously celebrated Scottish win.

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2015 Six Nations: Scotland 10 Ireland 40

Super Saturday indeed! Ireland needed a 21-point victory to overtake Wales after the latter’s 61-20 win in Rome. Tries by Paul O’Connell, the immense Seán O’Brien (two) and Jared Payne, and Jamie Heaslip’s tackle to deny Hogg a grounding left England requiring a 26-point win at home to France to take the title. They came up short in a wild 55-35 win. Cue riotous celebrations among the Irish in Murrayfield’s gathering gloom and a floodlit trophy presentation.

Ireland's David Kilcoyne and Brian O'Driscoll after the narrow defeat to Scotland at Murrayfield in 2013. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

2013 Six Nations: Scotland 12 Ireland 8

Ireland beat reigning Slam champions Wales, but lost at home to England. With Sexton sidelined, Jackson was a surprise debutant ahead of Ronan O’Gara and missed eight points off the tee before Wayne Barnes took centre stage as four late Laidlaw penalties earned Scotland a win. O’Gara was dropped after failing to bail out Ireland in what would be his last cap and Declan Kidney would lose his job after defeat in Rome.

2011 World Cup warm-up match: Scotland 10 Ireland 6

Possibly the least important of any of the 142 meetings between the two countries and certainly the least memorable. Kidney made 13 changes from the side which had beaten England 24-8 to deny them a Grand Slam in the preceding March, whereas Andy Robinson stuck closer to his first-choice team. Sexton kicked two penalties before a late Joe Ansbro try sealed a stodgy game, after which the Scots did an out-of-place lap of gratitude to their supporters.

2011 Six Nations: Scotland 18 Ireland 21

Heaslip scored one try and set up Eoin Reddan’s first in Test rugby. A third by O’Gara, who also landed the conversion, made it 21-9 by the 55th minute, but Scotland were like a dog with a bone and Ireland kept incurring Nigel Owens’s displeasure. A fourth penalty by Chris Paterson along with another penalty and a drop goal from replacement Dan Parks took Scotland to within three points and ensured a jittery finish.

2009 Six Nations: Scotland 15 Ireland 22

Jamie Heaslip: scored a crucial try for Ireland in the victory over Scotland in 2009. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

A taut, white-knuckle ride as Ireland set up a crack at a first Grand Slam in 61 years the following week in Cardiff. The Scots led 12-9 at half-time through four Paterson penalties to three by O’Gara, who became the leading Six Nations points scorer. Replacement Heaslip’s one-handed finish from Peter Stringer’s break gave Ireland the lead for the first time, and O’Gara’s conversion, a drop goal and another penalty saw Ireland home.

2007 World Cup warm-up: Scotland 31 Ireland 21

Scotland scored tries by Ally Hogg, Andy Henderson and Ewan Murray on a sodden day in Edinburgh, and Henderson added a second early in the second half. Isaac Boss and Andrew Trimble crossed for Ireland but Henderson’s third seven minutes from time ended Ireland’s seven-match winning over Scotland. Most importantly, there were no repeats of the broken leg which ruled Geordan Murphy out of the World Cup in the corresponding warm-up four years previously, with Murphy himself coming through unscathed.