TheBreakdown
Full time12 February 2005
Scotland
13–40
Ireland
Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland · Six Nations 2005Head-to-head

Ireland won by 27 points.

Scoring

  1. 11’PScotland penalty · Chris Paterson3–0
  2. 14’TScotland try · Hugo Southwell8–0
  3. 20’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara8–3
  4. 26’TIreland try · Malcolm O'Kelly8–8
  5. 27’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara8–10
  6. 40’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara8–13
  7. 43’TIreland try · Paul O'Connell8–18
  8. 45’TIreland try · Denis Hickie8–23
  9. 46’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara8–25
  10. 51’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara8–28
  11. 61’TScotland try · Jon Petrie13–28
  12. 76’TIreland try · John Hayes13–33
  13. 83’CIreland conversion · David Humphreys13–35
  14. 83’TIreland try · Gavin Duffy13–40

Line-ups

Scotland

  1. 1Tom SmithProp
  2. 2Gordon BullochHooker
  3. 3Gavin KerrProp
  4. 4Stuart GrimesSecond row
  5. 5Scott MurraySecond row
  6. 6Jason WhiteFlanker
  7. 7Jon PetrieFlanker
  8. 8Allister HoggNumber 8
  9. 9Chris CusiterScrum-half
  10. 10Dan ParksFly-half
  11. 11Sean LamontWing
  12. 12Hugo SouthwellCentre
  13. 13Andy CraigCentre
  14. 14Simon DanielliWing
  15. 15Chris PatersonFull-back
  16. 16Robbie RussellBench
  17. 17Bruce DouglasBench
  18. 18Nathan HinesBench
  19. 19Jon DunbarBench
  20. 20Mike BlairBench
  21. 21Gordon RossBench
  22. 22Ben HinshelwoodBench

Ireland

  1. 1Reggie CorriganProp
  2. 2Shane ByrneHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Malcolm O'KellySecond row
  5. 5Paul O'ConnellSecond row
  6. 6Simon EasterbyFlanker
  7. 7Jonny O'ConnorFlanker
  8. 8Anthony FoleyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Denis HickieWing
  12. 12Kevin MaggsCentre
  13. 13Shane HorganCentre
  14. 14Girvan DempseyWing
  15. 15Geordan MurphyFull-back
  16. 16Frankie SheahanBench
  17. 17Marcus HoranBench
  18. 18Donncha O'CallaghanBench
  19. 19Eric MillerBench
  20. 20Guy EasterbyBench
  21. 21David HumphreysBench
  22. 22Gavin DuffyBench

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Context

All-time, Scotland 55–72 Ireland, 5 drawn in 132 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Scotland going in
Ireland going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.