Ireland second-row Sam Monaghan has been named to start against Scotland in the only change from the team that defeated Wales last Saturday.<\/p>\n
Monaghan comes in for Dorothy Wall, who drops to the replacements for the final game of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
Ireland is looking for three wins in a Six Nations campaign for the first time since 2020, in their first standalone game in the Aviva Stadium, with over 30,000 tickets sold.<\/p>\n
Erin King will captain the team on what will be a historic game on Sunday, and she will be joined in the back-row by Aoife Wafer and Brittany Hogan.<\/p>\n
It is an unchanged backline with Stacey Flood at full-back, and wings B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons and Robyn O’Connor rounding out the back three. Eve Higgins partners Aoife Dalton in midfield, as scrum-half Emily Lane and fly-half Dannah O’Brien link up once more in the half-backs.<\/p>\n
In the front row, Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald and Linda Djougang will pack down together for their fifth consecutive start in the 2026 championship, with vice captain Fiona Tuite partnering Monaghan in the second row.<\/p>\n
Ireland (v Scotland): Stacey Flood (Railway Union\/Leinster); B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College\/Connacht), Aoife Dalton (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Eve Higgins (Railway Union\/Leinster), Robyn O\u2019Connor (Old Belvedere\/Leinster); Dannah O\u2019Brien (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Emily Lane (Blackrock College\/Munster); Ellena Perry (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby), Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs), Linda Djougang (Old Belvedere\/Leinster); Sam Monaghan (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby), Fiona Tuite (Old Belvedere\/Ulster); Brittany Hogan (Sale Sharks), Erin King (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) \u2013 captain, Aoife Wafer (Harlequins)<\/p>\n
Replacements: Neve Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury), Sadhbh McGrath (Cooke\/Ulster), Eil\u00eds Cahill (UL Bohemian\/Munster), Dorothy Wall (Exeter Chiefs), Ruth Campbell (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Katie Whelan (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Vicky Elmes Kinlan (Wicklow RFC\/Leinster), Niamh Gallagher (Trailfinders Women\/IQ Rugby).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland second-row Sam Monaghan has been named to start against Scotland in the only change from the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-450222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}