Connacht will be able to call upon Jack Carty and Dave Heffernan for this weekend's United Rugby Championship Interpro with Leinster at the Sportsground.
The duo look set to go straight back into the line-up for the visit of the league leaders on Saturday (live on RTÉ 2 and RTÉ Player), but fellow internationals Bundee Aki, Mack Hansen and Finlay Bealham are to be rested.
Andy Friend's side have also been given some mixed injury news, with confirmation that hooker Shane Delahunt has been ruled out until the end of the season, after having surgery on a hamstring injury suffered in the most recent outing against Edinburgh.
Connacht will also be without Alex Wootton and Tietie Tuimauga due to respective foot and calf issues, although both players are expected to return to training inside the next fortnight.
In better news, second row Gavin Thornbury could make his return from 10 months on the sidelines.
The 28-year-old hasn't played since May of last year, having had a series of shoulder issues, but the province have confirmed he is finally back in full training.
The 6ft 7in had been spoken of as a potential Test player before undergoing surgery towards the end of last season, which his head coach says they initially believed would only keep him out until August.
However, a number of complications saw his rehab stalled, with Thornbury's last outing having been against Leinster in early May.
"The reason we got it done early was so he could have the pre-season and be ready for game one," Friend said of Thornbury's surgery last summer.
"As we know now he had other complications. Gav being Gav, he stuck to the task, he's continued to bounce in here every day and worked really hard, and it's great to see him out there now and competing for a jersey.
"We’ve missed Gav Thornbury, to me he was one of the form locks in the country last year before his injury. It was untimely for him, and then all the complications, it hasn’t been a pleasant 12 months for him.
"He’s back, he’s got a real bounce in his step, he’ll get a couple of good weeks under his belt and get back to where he was, which was one of the form locks in the country."
Saturday's game against Leinster will be the first of three against their neighbours in the space of four weeks, with the pair also meeting home and away in the last 16 of the Heineken Champions Cup next month.
It's four years since Connacht last won against Leinster at the Sportsground, and they come into the game off the back of their worst defeat of the season, when they were beaten 56-8 by Edinburgh just over a fortnight ago.
That result has seen them drop to 10th in the URC table, with Friend conceding they will need to win at least four of their five remaining regular season games to secure a spot on the playoffs, and possibly Champions Cup rugby for next season.
But their most pressing issue is addressing how quickly they fell apart against the Scottish side.
Having led 8-0 through 27 minutes, they proceeded to concede four tries in the space of 15 minutes which they never recovered from.
There have been other similar collapses this season with defeats against Leinster, Leicester and Glasgow all featuring short periods in which they were hit for several scores.
And Friend says his players need to get batter at stopping the bleeding in the moment.
"The way we capitulated was probably the worst I've seen since I’ve been here. That was disappointing. It just came down to some of the simple things.
"That's a really important thing, and area that our leaders have been focusing on since that Edinburgh performance.
"We’ve talked about it previously; it's not something new. It’s our ability in the moment to come together under the sticks, debrief what’s happened, but then get into the next thing.
"We can’t change what’s happened, but in the Edinburgh performance we had too many players that tried to solve things individually, rather than the collective approach. It comes down to the simple fundamentals that we train with every single day, there’s no new plan, or new move that will come out that will change what’s happened, it’s just going back to the key principles that we’ve trained since day one.
"I know our leaders have been really strong with that, Jack Carty, Jarrad Butler, at pushing that message since Edinburgh. I’m confident we will see an adjustment in that," he added.
The Australian has also hinted that they're still hoping to make one further addition to their squad for next season.
In recent months, they have confirmed the signings of six new players, four of whom arrive from this week's opponents Leinster.
Watch Connacht v Leinster live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player from 7pm Saturday, follow our live blog on RTÉ Sport Online or the RTÉ News app and listen to live commentary on Radio 1's Saturday Sport
