Ireland are unchanged from the defeat to England which ended their hopes of back-to-back Grand Slams. After passing a head injury assessment, winger Calvin Nash is fit to start. Garry Ringrose is set to feature for the first time this year from the bench having missed the first few games of the tournament due to a shoulder injury.
Head coach Andy Farrell has opted to change to a five-three split on the bench, rather than the six-two they went for last weekend. There is no Iain Henderson in the matchday 23.
Ireland: Keenan; Nash, Henshaw, Aki, Lowe; Crowley, Gibson-Park; Porter, Sheehan, Furlong; McCarthy, Beirne, O’Mahony (capt), Van der Flier, Doris.
Replacements: Kelleher, Healy, Bealham, Baird, Conan, Murray, H Byrne, Ringrose.
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has decided to hand Glasgow centre Stafford McDowall his first Six Nations appearance. McDowall replaces Cameron Redpath at inside centre. At scrum-half Ben White replaces George Horne.
Loosehead prop Rory Sutherland is on the bench and is set to feature for the first time in this year’s Six Nations. Jamie Ritchie, Ali Price and Alec Hepburn drop out of the squad. Scotland have been forced into a late change as Elliot Millar-Mills is out with a calf injury so Javan Sebastian has come onto the bench.
Scotland: Kinghorn, Steyn, Jones, McDowall, Van Der Merwe, Russell, White; Schoeman, Turner, Z Fagerson, Gilchrist, Cummings, Christie, Darge, Dempsey.
Replacements: Ashman, Sutherland, Sebastian, Skinner, M Fagerson, Horne, Redpath, Rowe.
