McFadden ready for centre stage
Pigeonholed for so long as the frustrated understudy to Brian O’Driscoll, the 24-year-old’s patience has been recently rewarded with a string of superb performances thanks to a necklace of injuries to some of Leinster’s most celebrated backs.
That elevation into the first 15 and the limelight which comes with it was always going to attract some good-natured stick from his friends, especially now that he is sporting what could pass for a silver studded ring above his right eye.
