Stafford McDowall and Ben White named in Scotland team to face Ireland

Glasgow centre Stafford McDowall will make his second appearance for Scotland when he starts Saturday's Guinness Six Nations match against Ireland in Dublin.

The 26-year-old, who made his debut against Italy in a World Cup warm-up match last summer, takes the place of Cam Redpath as one of two changes to the starting XV from the team that kicked off last weekend’s damaging defeat to Italy in Rome.

The other alteration sees first-choice scrum-half Ben White return in place of George Horne after being rested for the trip to Rome.

Horne and Redpath both drop to the bench, where they are joined by veteran prop Rory Sutherland, who was a late addition to the Six Nations squad in the week leading up to the Italy game.

There is no place in the squad for former Munster out-half Ben Healy.

The Ireland team will be named at 2pm.

Scotland: Blair Kinghorn; Kyle Steyn, Huw Jones, Stafford McDowall, Duhan van der Merwe; Finn Russell (co-capt), Ben White; Pierre Schoeman, George Turner, Zander Fagerson; Grant Gilchrist, Scott Cummings; Andy Christie, Rory Darge, (co-capt), Jack Dempsey.

Replacements: Ewan Ashman, Rory Sutherland, Elliot Millar-Mills, Sam Skinner, Matt Fagerson, George Horne, Cameron Redpath, Kyle Rowe.

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