a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sb2UHVruwkI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/0oJzdU5QKyM/s1600-h/ireland-scotland.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sb2UHVruwkI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/0oJzdU5QKyM/s400/ireland-scotland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313565989167612482" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Ireland beat Scotland 22-15 in a bruising Six Nations clash yesterday to close in on a first championship in 24 years and edge within one victory of repeating its one and only grand slam of 1948./spanbr /br /A powerful Scottish effort gave the home side a 12-9 advantage at the break after fullback Chris Paterson outkicked Irish flyhalf Ronan O'Gara by four penalties to three.br /br /Ireland's recalled scrumhalf Peter Stringer sent replacement number eight Jamie Heaslip away for his second try of the campaign and O'Gara followed up his conversion with a drop goal. He traded penalties with Paterson before the visitors saw the game out.br /br /Ireland faces defending champions Wales in Cardiff next week with a two-point lead on top of the standings and a much greater points-difference advantage as it hopes to at least end its long championship drought.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sBPxb347DEAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sBPxb347DEAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span03:50br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Credit: /spanReutersbr //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/32316390-6898353498029194471?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=URlaGC6TaLs:A_W1ZXQNcOQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/URlaGC6TaLs" height="1" width="1"/ More...