Kidney beams but no Grand Slam talk

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The Irish head to Cardiff next Saturday needing a win to complete their first clean sweep since 1948 while champions Wales will be gunning for the title.

"We managed to win, let's see what happens. We have to play Wales in Cardiff which is a very difficult thing to do," said Kidney.

He added: "We want to celebrate this night and we'll start looking at Wales during the week.

"It's a craic and that's how we'll treat this week. That's the way we've treated it all the way through."

Ireland trailed 12-9 at the interval to four Chris Paterson penalties but should have been further behind given Scotland's control of the first half.

However, a 50th-minute try from Jamie Heaslip saw the pendulum swing in Ireland's favour with the boot of Ronan O'Gara closing out the victory.

"In the first half we conceded a lot of field position and played a lot of the game in our own half," said Kidney.

"They picked off their points very well. If we continued that way there was no chance we were going to win.

"It's very difficult to win a match from your own half, especially when Chris Paterson is kicking all his points."