Ireland – currently sitting top of the Six Nations table heading into Super Saturday – can clinch back-to-back Championship titles with victory over Scotland in Dublin.
Farrell has named an unchanged starting XV for the Round 5 clash, as Hugo Keenan, Calvin Nash and James Lowe continue in the Ireland back three. Robbie Henshaw and Bundee Aki are once again selected in midfield, with Jack Crowley and Jamison Gibson-Park the starting half-backs.
Andrew Porter, Dan Sheehan and Tadhg Furlong pack down in the front row, with Joe McCarthy partnering Tadhg Beirne – who is set to win his 50th Test cap for Ireland – in the engine room.
Captain Peter O’Mahony is at blindside flanker, Josh van der Flier is at openside and Caelan Doris completes the starting XV at number eight.
Ireland XV
15. Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)(39); 14. Calvin Nash (Young Munster/Munster)(5); 13. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster)(71), 12. Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht)(55); 11. James Lowe (Leinster)(30); 10. Jack Crowley (Cork Constitution/Munster)(13), 9. Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster)(34); 1. Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster)(63), 2. Dan Sheehan (Lansdowne/Leinster)(25), 3. Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster)(75); 4. Joe McCarthy (Dublin University/Leinster)(9), 5. Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster)(49); 6. Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster)(captain)(104), 7. Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster)(61), 8. Caelan Doris (St Mary’s College/Leinster)(40)
Replacements
16. Rónan Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster)(30), 17. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)(128), 18. Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht)(39), 19. Ryan Baird (Dublin University/Leinster)(19), 20. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)(45), 21. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)(115), 22. Harry Byrne (UCD/Leinster)(3), 23. Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster)(57)
