Tuesday 6 October 2009 was a long time ago.
But yesterday a group of TDs actually gathered around a phone in Leinster House and scrolled back to the Dáil footage of that eventful day.
That was when Labour leader Eamon Gilmore solemnly took to his feet and uttered the following words to the then Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue: "I regret to say this, but I consider your position is no longer tenable."
The political end game soon followed for the Kerry TD.
It is a memory that floated to the surface with gusto for many TDs yesterday evening as politicians pondered what will happen next.
Many seemed angry, some were exhausted while others looked a little embarrassed and bewildered after the day's events.
Yet, despite the bleak hilarity of it all there is a visceral bent to politics and the prospect of an office holder in peril sends a charged atmosphere through the house.
The Opposition have not brought matters to crunch point yet for Verona Murphy, but they are strongly contemplating doing so.
There is a minority view that switching the focus to the Ceann Comhairle amounts to letting the Government off the hook.
This is a row about speaking time and how it should be carved out between opposition and Government supporting TDs.
And it is words too that will dictate the next chapter in this furious political cycle.
When Leaders' Questions gets under way at midday the party leaders should have reached a final decision on whether they will begin the process of putting down a no confidence motion in Verona Murphy.
The political charge against the Ceann Comhairle is that she did not maintain an independent line when overseeing the unruly proceedings that led up to yesterday's fraught vote.
In the Dáil the Sinn Féin whip Pádraig Mac Lochlainn went further calling it "blatant collusion".
Ms Murphy tried hard to restore calm to the chamber but it was a messy afternoon.
There was fury too that the Dáil shut down for the day swiftly after the contentious vote was taken in the most chaotic fashion.
Ms Murphy has the firm backing of the Government but that is not the most valuable commodity to possess for the likely battle ahead.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has accused the Opposition of trying to bully and intimidate her.
But his imprimatur counts for very little really because a Ceann Comhairle needs to have the confidence of not just the Government but the Opposition too.
Should she survive a no confidence motion how difficult would the next four-and-a-half years be for the independent chair of the Dáil?
It would surely prove to be almost impossible for her to manage the Dáil in those circumstances.
