Fred Klimas, Jake Moore and Covenant Ero have all earned places in Irish underage squads, the latest sign of a Limerick Lions pathway that keeps producing players.
Fred Klimas has made the Final 12 for the Ireland Under-18 Men's National Team. That is the hard part. Squads get trimmed, and plenty of players train with a panel and never survive the last cut. Klimas did, and that says plenty about the level he has reached.
Two more Lions are heading away with Ireland Under-17 Men. Guard Jake Moore and forward Covenant Ero have both been picked for the Home Nations Tournament in June.
None of this happened in a single season. Klimas, Moore and Ero have all come up through the Lions over years, not months, and that long stretch of coaching and games is what the national selectors are now rewarding.
For Moore and Ero there is another step in front of them too. Both are edging towards the senior end of the club, the Limerick Sport Eagles Super League programme that sits at the top of the pathway. The route from the underage halls to a Super League squad is real, and these two are on it.
Bring players through, give them games, move them up when they are ready. Three international call-ups in one week say it is holding up.