Kidney: Credit due to Scotland
Ireland head coach Declan Kidney accepted Ireland had under-performed in their final tie of the RBS Six Nations tournament but praised Scotland, who avoided the wooden spoon with their first win of the campaign..
“We have to give Scotland credit for playing a good game and keeping the scoreboard ticking over,” he said.
“We didn’t have our greatest day. We made errors and we’ve said all along that unless you’re right on top of your game any team in this competition can beat you.
“We congratulate Scotland and the way they played wasn’t a complete shock to us, we saw it coming.
“But we will take a hard look at ourselves. We tried things in the first half and made a few errors. It’s extremely disappointing.
“Days like this are going to happen. It’s so disappointing – the venue, the result, everything that was at stake.
“If we look at the Six Nations we feel there’s more in us. A lot of the things that went wrong are within our control to rectify.”
Meanwhile it was revealed that Brian O’Driscoll twisted his knee and is to undergo a scan.
