Once the opposition's leader, Silvio Berlusconi, had declared the scheme for constitutional reform to be dead, every party in parliament decided it was time to make its own noisy points.
The net neutrality battle has overwhelmed the agency since Chairman Genachowski first took office, and there was no sign of a resolution that would make any of the increasingly noisy rabble-rousers on either side happy.
It had been 10 years since the Irish last qualified for a major tournament and their noisy fans seemed keen to make up for lost time, but with less than three minutes gone they were silenced by a Croatia goal.