After an opening weekend victory over England, Ireland are looking to win their 11th straight Test against Scotland. Our live match centre [below] has you covered for all the big moments, best scores, reactions and full Ireland player ratings.
Ireland kicked off their 2025 Six Nations campaign with a 27-22 victory over Steve Borthwick’s side. Simon Easterby made two changes to his starting XV for the Scotland game (kick-off at 3pm on Sunday, February 9th).
The match will be full of talking points – before, during and after – so our Scotland vs. Ireland liveblog will keep you up to date on all the contentious issues, pundit post-game reactions, scores, and our Ireland player ratings.
Click on the key point you want to read about, or just keep scrolling to see updates in our liveblog [below]:
The Ireland team pose for a team photograph before a captain’s run at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile)
Simon Easterby warns against slow start
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During his press briefing in Dublin, before Ireland flew out to Edinburgh, interim head coach Simon Easterby warned that a slow start could be punished by the Scots.
“We have to bring intent,” said Easterby, “and we have to bring a start to the game that is going to be difficult for Scotland because we know how quick they started against Italy.”
“The start of the [England] game would have been an area where we felt we weren’t quite achieving what we wanted to achieve and obviously at half time we felt like we were in a good space,” he added.
“I think there are areas of the game, you reflect on and think, ‘That could have been better and we could have done that differently’.”
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Ireland player ratings throughout 2025 Six Nations
Throughout this Six Nations championship, we will be running team announcement and big match liveblogs, which will include our Ireland player ratings.
Their opening game of the championship saw Jamison Gibson-Park and Dan Sheehan score highest, with 9/10. Finlay Bealham, Mack Hansen and James Ryan were the three starters that scored steady but unspectacular 6/10s.
Another person that will be watching the championship closely is Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. He is on sabbatical from his IRFU job as he carries out his duties as British & Irish Lions head coach.
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