Ireland has four games planned over the month, opening with South Africa, then Samoa, before games against New Zealand and Argentina at the new Aviva Stadium.
A year from now, Ireland will have played two games in their pool - USA and Australia - at the 2011 World Cup finals in New Zealand - and preparing to face Russia and then Italy.
And it is the World Cup that Ireland has in mind by playing Wallace in a position he has not played regularly for several seasons now.
However, to aid the Irish management, Wallace will also have to play in the No 10 shirt with Ulster – and the first occasion could come this weekend against Connacht in Galway.
The News Letter understands there are a number of directives from the Ireland management to all the Provinces in respect of downtime for front line internationals, which has already been well documented, but head coach, Declan Kidney is also asking the Provincial management teams to follow some other directions.
Wallace at outhalf is understood to be one of those orders, but Ulster were unable to make any comment on the situation yesterday.
Ireland opens that series against South Africa and then face Samoa, and that would be the likely match for Wallace to be slotted in at outhalf.
It is perhaps not the news Ulster's Niall O'Connor or Ian Humhreys would have wanted to hear, given that they would have been hoping to maybe make the cut.
He is bound to be on the Irish radar at this stage and it would be no surprise to see him invited to join the extended National panel next month.
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