Sam Prendergast's "short memory" is an asset as the young out-half learns his trade, according to Leinster attack coach Tyler Bleyendaal.
The 22-year-old has started each of Ireland’s last five Tests, including Saturday’s hard-fought Guinness Six Nations victory over Wales in Cardiff.
Prendergast had a mixed day at the office with the good outweighing the bad.
He kicked 17 points off the tee, including three late penalties, while he was off target with three more attempts.
The Kildare man kicked 12 times out of hand, including one sublime 50:22, which set up position for Ireland’s second try, however, he miscued a clearance late in the game prior to Ellis Mee's disallowed try that could have proved costly.
In addition, Prendergast, who won his sixth cap, conceded three turnovers and missed eight tackles, while he was caught badly out of position for Wales’ second try.
"He is just showing that he is maturing fast," Bleyendaal said about Prendergast's ability to quickly put errors behind him.
"He is taking most of his opportunities and, like you said, it is not all smooth sailing for him.
"He has had to dig himself out of a few holes and face some adversity but he has a short memory.
"He goes back and he backs himself, backs what he sees."
Prendergast, after being replaced by Jack Crowley at out-half in the second half of the win over England, played the full 80 against Scotland and Wales, with the Munster man being deployed off the bench at full-back in rounds two and three.
"He has great ability to execute his skills as well so I’m delighted to see him get a good run around in Ireland camp," added Bleyendaal.
"It’s all great development for himself and he is learning things that he can transfer back to our game as well. He has done really well."
Another Leinster back, Jamie Osborne, marked his first Six Nations cap with 13 carries, a line break, almost 100m worth of clearances and a crucial try, while he threw a poor final pass when a score looked on for Garry Ringrose in the first half.
The 23-year-old replaced Hugo Keenan at full-back for his seventh cap and impressed his New Zealand coach.
"He is definitely a special talent," he added.
"He is a great athlete, really grounded and humble individual off the field as well and he still has a lot of growth left in his game as well. He would be the first to admit that.
"He is really diligent and is always trying to improve but he is also very selfless. He doesn’t mind if he is put into the midfield, asked to play wing or starts at full-back.
"He is able to show his array of skills, a great kicking game and he is a big, physical man as well. Really impressed with how he is going but also how he is always training to be better."
Leo Cullen’s side top the table with 52 points from 11 rounds.
They are the league’s second highest try-scorers, on 46, two behind second-placed Glasgow.
"We are pleased that we are scoring points and getting results," said Bleyendaal (above), who joined the club at the start of the season.
"I remember at the start of the year, we scored often at the starts of the matches and weren’t finishing well.
"More recently we’ve struggled early but we’re finishing well. Just on attack, we’re looking for consistency and striving to execute our game but also to keep growing.
"[We’re] not the finished product, we’re still implementing a few ideas, [the goal is to] bed them in and make them habitual, I guess.
"I can’t question the players' intent and desire to learn, not just being stuck to what they’ve always done, which is really pleasing from a coach’s point of view."
