Heady is too weak a word for the joy experienced yesterday when the Irish Farmers' Association reinstalled Tom Parlon as its president at the organisation's annual meeting in the Citywest Hotel on the outskirts of Dublin.
So great was the enthusiasm that when the Offaly man was being carried to the podium following the official announcement he almost lost his head on a crystal chandelier. The return of the "lost leader" was marked by a celebratory rerun of the beef campaign.
First of all, the newly-elected national council of the IFA watched a five-minute compilation of the television reports broadcast by RTE's Agriculture Correspondent, Joe O'Brien. The film had been edited with a soundtrack of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changing and it brought applause and approval from the crowded room.
That was only matched when the official declaration of Mr Parlon as the new president was announced and he was carried to the podium.
In his 50-minute address, Mr Parlon coined a new word in trade union disputes. He referred to the IFA action as a "pickade" - presumably a marriage between a picket and a blockade. Whatever it was, it worked, and delegates were later allowed to congratulate him and recall the fortnight's "pickade" in some detail for the rest of us.
A Galway delegate recalled that the pickaders were doing "half-sets at half past five in the morning outside a meat plant in Gort".
Another recalled that he had received an offer of help on the picket from a group of women in Sligo who were holding a lingerie party that night. He said the kind of help offered was unspecified.
A Wexford delegate said the Bunclody picket line had "become a Mecca" during the dispute and that the men and women of Wexford had "carried the pike" at that time.
There were calls too to reach out the hand of friendship to other farm organisations.