Dubliners will hear the roar of the rustic tiger today at lunchtime when 300 tractors will go to full revs outside Leinster House to mark the end of the IFA tractorcade.
The full-throttle order was given last night to the 300 drivers who will be allowed into the city to mark the end of the week-long protest drive on Dublin by the IFA.
"The drivers will open the throttles fully after John Dillon delivers a short speech to remind the Government we are still alive," said an IFA official last night.
By all accounts this will put the Clare Shout to shame and will be the final act of defiance by the drivers, who were last night trying to get some chill out of their bones after the long drive.
The greatest complaint from the men who were driving the tractors to the city yesterday was "the hips". Their hip joints, they said, took terrible punishment during the week.
The men from west Cork and Kerry said their hip joints were even sorer than their bottoms after the long drive.
Others bemoaned the fact that there was no privacy in the Pale for any man who wanted to get off his tractor to spend a penny.
There was a huge turn-out of vehicles in Portlaoise yesterday when the Cork cavalcade arrived at lunchtime. At one stage there were more than 500 vehicles on the roads around the town.
Many of these turned back, including one which carried at message to the Taoiseach, "Bertie - a profit is not a man with a long grey beard on top of a mountain".
The southern contingent joined up with the Kilkenny and Carlow tractorcade at the Waterford turn-off, and in all 300 vehicles made it to Goff's at Kill to overnight there.
Today will be the acid test for the IFA, but if the same discipline is applied in the capital as in the rest of the country, traffic disruption will be minimal.