Fitzgerald ‘surprised’ at quick elevation

SINCE turning professional during the summer, Luke Fitzgerald simply hasn’t had time to sit and reflect on the heights he has reached in such a remarkably short period of time.

Which is just as well really because the Leinster teenager would, in all likelihood, need treatment for an acute case of vertigo if he did.

Included in the Irish squad for the forthcoming autumn internationals on Tuesday, there was yet more reason to cheer yesterday when he was named in the Leinster squad to face Edinburgh on Saturday — his first involvement in the Heineken Cup.