No Triple Crown, no hope of winning the Six Nations title, no end to their hideous run of defeats against Ireland - now standing at 12 and with no discernible sign of it stopping there. 'Not the end' for Scotland after Six Nations hopes end - Tuipulotu Ireland 'ruthless' in Triple Crown win - Farrell Ireland beat Scotland to keep title hopes alive When Finn Russell's try and conversion made it 19-14 there was a brief moment of hope, but Ireland responded within just three minutes. This was a victory largely built on ferocity - Andy Farrell's team made somewhere between 227 and 232 tackles, their highest tally in 15 years - but the subtlety of some of their tries, the ambition and accuracy in their attack was something special. Tadhg Beirne was crucial in Ireland's victory over Scotland With six minutes to go in this recurring Scottish nightmare, Ireland led by 15 points, a fair reflection of the brutality they visited upon the visitors, a reward for their relentless physical pressure on both sides of the ball. He's 34, but the bad news for Scotland is he shows no sign of slowing down. Progress, for sure, even if it didn't feel like it when Sione Tuipulotu, jaded from the vast scale of the effort he and his team had put in, coughed up ball at the end of the contest and Tommy O'Brien scored in the corner off a basketball-style pass from McCloskey.