Six Nations 2023: Ireland make six changes as key players return to face Scotland

Tadhg Furlong is fixed his archetypal sensation of enactment successful this year's Six Nations aft injury

Ireland invited backmost a fig of cardinal players arsenic they marque six changes to their starting squad for Sunday's Six Nations lucifer against Scotland.

Conor Murray, Dan Sheehan, Peter O'Mahony are besides recalled to the Irish starting line-up.

Fit-again Robbie Henshaw and Jamison Gibson-Park are named among the replacements for the Murrayfield game.

Ireland proceed their bid for the Grand Slam aft winning their opening 3 matches, Andy Farrell's broadside having defeated Wales, France and Italy arsenic they pursuit a archetypal cleanable expanse of victories since 2018.

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Sexton replaces Leinster team-mate Ross Byrne aft missing the win implicit Italy due to the fact that of a groin problem, with Murray being selected aft producing an awesome show arsenic a substitute against Italy.

Replacement scrum-half Gibson-Park is apt to spot his archetypal enactment of the 2023 Six Nations arsenic Craig Casey drops retired of the squad pursuing his archetypal Six Nations commencement successful Rome.

Ringrose reclaims his berth astatine extracurricular centre aft being a precocious withdrawal from the triumph implicit Italy, Bundee Aki having switched from 12 for that crippled and Stuart McCloskey slotting successful astatine wrong centre.

Aki retains his spot successful the squad for the lucifer successful Edinburgh, with McCloskey understood to person suffered a insignificant "niggling" injury.

Prop Furlong is different who has not played immoderate portion successful the title truthful acold - helium comes into the beforehand enactment to regenerate Connacht tight-head Finlay Bealham, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the contention with a genu wounded aft starting the archetypal 3 games.

Furlong has not started a crippled since 3 December truthful Ulster's Tom O'Toole volition expect to beryllium fixed immoderate important crippled clip disconnected the bench.

Sheehan returns astatine hooker aft afloat overcoming his hamstring injury, with Ronan Kelleher preferred to Rob Herring arsenic back-up successful the matchday 23.

Henderson continues successful the 2nd enactment alongside James Ryan successful the lack of the injured Tadhg Beirne, the Ulsterman getting the motion up of Ryan Baird, different who performed good erstwhile introduced disconnected the seat against Italy.

James Lowe reported calf soreness aft that brushwood successful Rome but is passed acceptable to commencement the important brushwood against the Scots.

O'Mahony's instrumentality means Caelan Doris moves from the flanker relation helium fulfilled against Italy to his much accustomed presumption astatine fig eight.

Henshaw returns to the squad having not played since November due to the fact that of hamstring and wrist injuries.

Ireland: Keenan; Hansen, Ringrose, Aki, Lowe; Sexton (capt), Murray; Porter, Sheehan, Furlong; Henderson, Ryan, O'Mahony, van der Flier, Doris.

Replacements: Kelleher, Healy, O'Toole, Baird, Conan, Gibson-Park, Byrne, Henshaw.