Women's Six Nations 2023: Scotland 36-10 Ireland - Scots finish with back-to-back wins

Fran McGhie's superb solo people earned Scotland a bonus constituent arsenic they thrashed Ireland

A scintillating Fran McGhie effort propelled Scotland to back-to-back Women's Six Nations victories for the archetypal clip successful 17 years arsenic they consigned Ireland to the woody spoon.

Meryl Smith, Lana Skeldon, Leah Bartlett and Rachel Malcolm and Chloe Rollie besides crossed for the hosts.

Ireland extremity their run without a point, Nicola Fryday scoring their try.

• Reaction and arsenic it happened

Fourth spot is Scotland's highest Six Nations decorativeness since 2017, and guarantees Bryan Easson's broadside a berth successful the 2nd tier of the inaugural WXV tournament, which takes spot aboriginal this year.

Ireland volition participate the 3rd tier, and the visitors much than held their ain successful a ferociously contested archetypal fractional devoid of attacking opportunities and red-zone possession earlier a grounds Scottish assemblage of implicit 4,000.

Teenager Dannah O'Brien, a consistently assured presence, slotted an aboriginal penalty.

Ireland pummelled distant astatine the Scots, winning a punishment successful the location 22, and attempting to maul their mode to the opening try. Scotland held firm, Louise McMillan with a important portion of spoiling.

At the different end, Mairi McDonald exchanged slick passes with Rachel Malcolm and scampered to wrong 5 metres of the line, but scampered a small excessively overmuch connected her hands and knees for referee Sara Cox's liking.

The breakthrough arrived with the timepiece reddish astatine the extremity of the archetypal half. Scotland booted a punishment to the corner, and though the maul was halted, Smith went crashing implicit from the archetypal phase.

Skeldon produced a likewise almighty decorativeness 7 minutes into the caller half, a classical hooker's effort from the backmost of a line-out drive. The Hawick autochthonal picked her infinitesimal to pounce beautifully, pirouetting beyond a tackle and grounding.

Helen Nelson missed some conversions, allowing Ireland to level astatine 10-10 erstwhile their skipper Fryday muscled implicit for conscionable her side's 3rd effort of the championship, O'Brien adding the extras.

But from past on, it was each Scotland.

McGhie's effort was the prime of the location scores, the 19-year-old searing up the near helping earlier cutting wickedly wrong and outsprinting the screen defence. McGhie has been a superb summation to Easson's squad this year.

Captain Malcolm, a relentless totem and workhorse for her team, had her accidental successful the dying minutes. She mislaid the shot guardant powering implicit connected punishment advantage, but ploughed done 2 Irish tackles to interaction down safely from the adjacent attack.

Nelson converted some tries, earlier Rollie completed the rout with a typically classy decorativeness connected the last play.

Scotland entered the Six Nations connected a brutal losing streak which stretched to 12 matches earlier Italy were beaten past weekend.

They extremity it successful genuinely rousing fashion, with an energised location enactment and reinvigorated squad anxious to onslaught the WXV.

Scotland: Chloe Rollie, Coreen Grant, Emma Orr, Meryl Smith, Francesca McGhie, Helen Nelson, Mairi McDonald, Leah Bartlett, Lana Skeldon, Christine Belisle, Jade Konkel-Roberts, Louise McMillan, Rachel Malcolm (c), Rachel McLachlan, Evie Gallagher.

Replacements: Jodie Rettie, Anne Young, Elliann Clarke, Eva Donaldson, Eilidh Sinclair, Caity Mattinson, Beth Blacklock, Liz Musgrove.

Ireland: Lauren Delany, Aoife Doyle, Aoife Dalton, Vicky Irwin, Natasja Behan, Dannah O'Brien, Molly Scuffil-McCabe, Linda Djougang, Neve Jones, Christy Haney, Nichola Fryday (c), Sam Monaghan, Brittany Hogan, Grace Moore, Deirbhile Nic a Bháird.

Replacements: Clara Nielson, Sadhbh McGrath, Kathryn Buggy, Hannah O'Connor, Dorothy Wall, Ailsa Hughes, Anna McGann, Méabh Deely.