When it comes to spontaneous Irish sporting frenzies, Padraig Harrington's dramatic victory at the Honda Classic yesterday evening was on a par with some of the best.
Yet another unexpected surge by a Paddy - this time an actual one - and as word spreads like wildfire before you know it, the a nation is holding its breadth, as George Hamilton might say.
Harrington's revival wasn't exactly up there with Italia '90, but his charge and eventual triumph is far from alone in its spontaneity, although it is a lot easier for the internet generation to quickly assemble for a sporting event.
Earlier yesterday, the IRFU announced they are bidding to host the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, which brought us back to last year's tournament when Philip Doyle's side unexpectedly grabbed the nation's attention one epic Tuesday afternoon.
As the girls in green astonishingly ran up a 23-17 lead against peerless New Zealand, Twitter exploded to break-the-internet levels and tens of thousands tuned into TG4 to see if Ireland could see out the last 20 minutes.
In a heroic show of resilience they did just that and defied the Black Ferns, who had dominated women's rugby by winning the previous four World Cups.
In the pre-Twitter day, however, people found their own way of leaping on to a bandwagon. Rewind to Los Angeles 1984 and John Treacy's marathon tilt.
The Waterford man has blown his shot at the 10,000m earlier in the Olympic Games, and on the back of a miserable Moscow in 1980, a lot of the Irish public had all but given up on the "little man from Villierstown with a big heart".
What's more, the men's marathon was the last event of LA '84 and given the race had a start-time of 1am on a Monday morning in Ireland, most gave it a miss.
That was until just after the wall when Treacy emerged as a serious contender for the podium. House phones across the nation started ringing and people were dragged from their beds to see the Waterford man battle it out with Charlie Spedding.
Shortly after 3am Irish time, this happened:
The following year, Dennis Taylor's black-ball final victory in the 1985 World Snooker Championship will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
Many were expecting to be watching a spaghetti western on BBC2 come about 10pm that Monday night - given Steve Davis' red-hot favouritism for the title - but the Ulsterman hung on in there and held his nerve in the wee hours of the morning.
With 18.5m tuning in in the UK alone, it remains the largest after-midnight audience ever recorded across the water, while in Ireland many an 80s schoolkid set their own staying-up-late record the same night.
It was worth it, though. You were nothing in the classroom the next day if you didn't see this:
And while snooker was at least well-embed as a popular sport with the Irish masses - once a year anyway - it's easy to forget that until recent times cricket didn't so much as register a blip on the public radar.
Thankfully for its sake, it's one sport that lends itself to gathering momentum as even one-dayers can last for hours and hours.
In 2007, as minnows Ireland made their World Cup debut - all hell broke lose when we closed in on a staggering win over Pakistan.
Cricket had arrived in the Irish sporting conciousness and, as this past month has shown, it's here to stay.
Nothing like making a hell of a first impression though...
But back to Padraig. Let's enjoy another spin of his Honda heroics:
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