Customers at The Camden sports bar in Dublin city centre might normally have expected to enjoy their Tuesday lunchtime sandwich with Wimbledon on in the background.
But while today's action on the big screen included plenty of lengthy rallies, sharp returns and the occasional smash, there wasn't a tennis ball to be seen.
Instead, people watched Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
"We just got a lot of enquiries this week to see if we would show it on the big screen," explained Linda Monahan area manager for The Camden and the Murray Pub Group.
"It wouldn't be a typical big screen event for our business, which is sport. At the moment, that would be Wimbledon or the Tour de France. But we got over 100 enquiries and we just decided to have a little fun and meet customer demand."
In truth, the early lunchtime crowd arguably included more press photographers than avid PAC fans.
Fortunately for them, software developer Emmet Byrne was happy to be snapped as he ate his lunch in front of the huge 4K screen.
"I have never watched Oireachtas tv in a pub. I'm not sure when this will happen again, so I just thought I'd take the opportunity," he said.
Another customer, Enya Donohue, had seen a post on Instagram advertising that The Camden was screening today's committee hearings.
"It's like a reality tv show. Some people are quite upset, but others are just coming to watch it for entertainment," she said.
A little way up the road from The Camden, customers had also gathered in Devitt's pub to watch proceedings.
Among them, US tourists Will and Katrina Arther found it a curious, if engrossing, spectacle.
"We just arrived 12 hours ago. This is our first pint, in our first Irish pub. It's good and kind of cool that in a casual place like this everybody is watching this go down," Mr Arther said.
