Town boss Mick McCarthy is keeping his fingers crossed that his senior players away on international duty come through their games unscathed ahead of the final eight matches of the Championship season, starting with a trip to his old club Wolves a week on Saturday.
Daryl Murphy is away with Ireland, Christophe Berra with Scotland, Jonas Knudsen with Denmark, Kevin Bru with Mauritius and Ainsley Maitland-Niles with the England U19s.
While those five will be away with national squads, the other players are being given some time off during the break after a busy spell of fixtures in recent weeks.
"Most of the players will not be back with us until the middle of next week so we will have to wait until then to see who comes back fit and well,” McCarthy told the club site.
"The international break is what it is though. We will get on with it. When we’ve got the squad back, we will regroup and go again.
"It’s always the challenge to react after a defeat and a poor display like on Saturday and we’ve got to wait two weeks to do it. That's what we’ve got to do though at Wolves on April 2nd.”
Town have confirmed that striker David McGoldrick came through Monday’s U21s game against his old club Nottingham Forest without a problem and the 28-year-old could play for Mark Kennedy’s side again in next Wednesday’s match at home to Crewe Alexandra (Playford Road, KO 1pm).
Also away on international duty at present are keeper Michael Crowe and defender Josh Yorwerth with the Wales U21s, keeper Jon Henley with the Scotland U21s and midfielder Andre Dozzell and striker Ben Morris with the England U17s.