Beirne ready to reignite Scotland rivalry ahead of 50th cap

It's no secret that these Irish and Scottish teams don't like each other.

A frosty relationship between the sides dates back almost a decade now, when Munster and the Glasgow Warriors consistently rubbed each other up the wrong way.

That niggle has often bled into the national sides. In October’s Rugby World Cup meeting of the pair in Paris there were multiple flare-ups between, one which saw Scottish prop Pierre Schoeman shove Dan Sheehan back over the advertising boards.

After the 36-14 thrashing, Ireland's ninth win in a row over the Scots, Peter O’Mahony threw some more petrol onto the blaze.

"They were in the press beforehand saying they were going to knock us off our winning streak, and how they had they had figured us out and worked us out. I don't think they did, tonight," he said at the Stade de France.

Fast-forward six months and that fire still seems to be burning.

The Netflix series Full Contact shone some light on the often bitter rivalry between the sides when they went under the bonnet of the Scottish camp in the lead-up to last year’s Six Nations game at Murrayfield.

"The last few years, I’ve heard a lot of things come out of Ireland. The Irish players, the Irish media, believe we’re soft," Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend told his players, while the now-retired Stuart Hogg said Ireland were "due one", albeit with a lot more swearing.

On Tuesday, Tadhg Beirne was asked if he’d watched the Netflix series.

"I did," was the short response, before he was asked for his thoughts on the niggling nature of the relationship between these sets of players.

"The Scots are the Scots, we have our perception of them and I'm not going to verbalise it here because they've given us ammo in the past from what they've said in the