Luke Fitzgerald found out he will miss the Six Nations yesterday after suffering a “fairly innocuous but very unfortunate” knee ligament injury.

The Leinster three-quarter suffered his injury blow during Ireland’s open training session on Friday and could be out of action for two months.

The 28-year-old impressed off the bench in Ireland’s 43-20 World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina and would have now been hoping to force his way into boss Joe Schmidt’s starting line-up.