Brendan O'Brien: Seven days, seven medals - Ireland's Olympic journey so far

This started with Mona McSharry’s bronze this day last month and one-a-day, like a vitamin prescribed by a doctor, has followed since: Daniel Wiffen, Kellie’s guaranteed bronze, Lynch and Doyle, O’Donovan and McCarthy, Rhys, and now Wiffen again.

IMPRESSIVE MEDAL HALL WEEK ONE: Ireland's Mona McSharry and Daniel Wiffen with their medals. Picture: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

As weeks go, we’d never seen the like. Maybe never will again. It actually stretched to eight days, if you want to be picky, but that run, as London turned the corner from August to September in 2012, will always stand up there with the most remarkable chapters in Irish sporting history.

The numbers are still staggering, a dozen years on from that Paralympic Games.