If you believe the legend, Scottish and Irish foes have been at each other since time began. The folklore suggests that long ago the great giants of Benandonner and Fionn mac Cumhaill went to war, hurling earth and stomping causeways across the Irish Sea.
There’s little need for a tall tale to embellish the legend ahead of this latest Edinburgh encounter. Both Scotland and Ireland have endured plenty of tough times in this championship but meet at Murrayfield in rude health, iterations deservedly regarded as perhaps the best that each nation has produced for a generation.
