Chris Cochrane, Eoin O'Malley and David Kearney shared out five tries as the Ireland Under-20 side ended the IRB Junior World Championship in fine form with a 39-12 dismissal of Scotland in Newport.
Eric Elwood's Ireland side chalked up a comfortable win over Scotland at a windswept Rodney Parade - a result which means they clinch ninth place overall at the inaugural Under-20 tournament.
Ireland were the worthy winners on the day, but Scotland put in a gallant display after the sending-off of their right winger Tom Bury for kicking an opponent on the ground left them a man short for an hour.
Ireland made early use of the breeze at their backs with two early penalties from scrum-half Ian Porter.
However, Scotland made light of their numerical disadvantage and engineered several scoring opportunities with only heroic Irish defence keeping them at bay.
Things then went from bad to worse for Scotland as they lost influential centre Stephen McColl and they then had second row Neale Patrick stretchered off within minutes of each other before conceding the game's first try.
Ireland struck just before half-time when left winger Chris Cochrane touched down after a Scotland kick was charged down.
Trailing 13-0, Scotland had a second half mountain to climb and it only became steeper when Ireland's replacement out-half Ian Madigan slid through a sublime grubber kick for centre Eoin O'Malley to gather and score under the posts.
Nevertheless, the Scots showed real grit to bounce back when replacement Ruaridh Jackson gathered a loose ball on halfway and outsprinted the cover to touch down in the corner for his side's first points in the 52nd-minute.
It was no more than their efforts merited and, even when Madigan put winger David Kearney over for Ireland's third try after a neat blindside break, Scotland responded with a score from flanker Andrew Rose.
Yet the Irish wingers had the final word as Kearney and Cochrane both finished off length of the field moves to claim their second tries in the match.
Scotland had given their all but Ireland had just too much for them, with number eight Kieran Essex leading the way and scrum-half Porter's right boot proving important in the early stages.
Ireland Under-20: Niall Morris (Blackrock College/Leinster); David Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster), Eoin O'Malley (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Conor Cleary (Greystones/Leinster), Chris Cochrane (Queen's University/Ulster); Martin Dufficy (Dublin University/Leinster), Ian Porter (Queen's University/Ulster); Paul Karayiannis (Queen's University/Ulster), Jason Harris-Wright (Greystones/Leinster), Ben Barclay (UCD/Leinster), Ian Nagle (UCC/Munster), Eoin Sheriff (Lansdowne/Leinster), Paul Ryan (Blackrock College/Leinster) (capt), Michael Entwistle (Ballymena/Ulster), Kieran Essex (UL Bohemians/Munster).
Replacements used: James Sandford (Queen's University/Ulster) for Nagle (28 mins), Ian Madigan (Blackrock College/Leinster) for Dufficy (half-time), Ciaran Ruddock (Neath/Exiles) for Entwistle, Jamie Smith (Ballymena/Ulster) for Cleary (both 50), Stephen Archer (UCC/Munster) for Barclay (53), David Moore (Blackrock College/Leinster) for Porter (57), Stephen Douglas (Ballymena/Ulster) for Harris-Wright (60).
