Munster trio Diarmuid Kilgallen, Brian Gleeson and Evan O'Connell have all linked up with the Ireland squad as additional training panellists ahead of the upcoming summer tour games against Georgia and Portugal.
It comes after Ulster back row James McNabney was dealt a serious blow, with an ACL injury in training set to sideline him long-term.
McNabney enjoyed a breakthrough season with Ulster, playing 17 times for Richie Murphy's side in 2024/25. While the 22-year-old wasn't set to tour with Ireland this summer, he had been named as an additional training panellist, having previously been in the extended squad at the start of the Guinness Six Nations.
His former Ireland Under-20 back row partner Gleeson has been drafted in by interim head coach Paul O'Connell, while Kilgallen has also joined the wider group with Calvin Nash currently nursing a minor ankle injury which will limit him in training.
Both Gleeson, Kilgallen and second row Evan O'Connell - nephew of interim head coach Paul - will train with the Ireland squad, who gathered at the IRFU high performance centre in Dublin today, but aren't set to travel to Tbilisi, barring an injury to a main squad member.
The squad will train today and next week in the HPC before departing for Tbilisi on Wednesday, 2 July.
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