Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, by Brendan Gallagher

The history books tell us that Ireland currently lead Scotland 71-66 in nearly 150 years of rugby with five games also drawn.
A perennially competitive fixture between bitter Celtic rivals you might think, always nip and tuck with the result rarely a foregone conclusion.
In which case you would be wrong because for whatever reason this fixture seems unusually prone to periods of complete dominance by one or other of the teams.
Going into last weekend's game at Murrayfield, Ireland had won the last ten ...