What was remarkable was how unremarkable it was. Those that follow Irish Olympics had long been used to turbulence.
Earlier this month, Sarah Keane stepped down as President of the Olympic Federation of Ireland.
Her term was up.
Her successor, Lochlann Walsh of Triathlon Ireland, was elected. It was a calm, orderly transition. That says it all. The era had begun in very different circumstances.
Sarah Keane was elected to the role of President of the then Olympic Council of Ireland in 2017 in the aftermath of the Pat Hickey era.
One of the first significant moves was to rebrand the organisation, jettisoning the name which had become a byword for controversy.
If embarrassment was an Olympic sport, Ireland would have won gold in Rio - easily.
Pat Hickey had been in the top job in Irish Olympics since the 1980s but will always be remembered for 2016, and the Rio Games.
Enough has been written about Rio's ticket scandals, dawn arrests and jail spells.
Suffice to say, if embarrassment was an Olympic sport, Ireland would have won gold in Rio - easily.
Eight years on, in Paris, all the Irish drama was reserved for the track, and the pool and the lake, and the ring and the gym hall.
Our most successful Olympics ever was no accident.
In Rio, 2016, we won two medals - both silver - and ended 63rd on the medals table.
In Tokyo, in 2021, we won four - two gold - and finished 39th. Progress.
In Paris, this summer, we won seven medals - four gold - and ended 19th.
Hard work rebuilding trust
While celebrating the Paris medal haul, and the many other positive performances that didn't make podium, Olympic analysts here might, if anything, be quietly disappointed that it wasn't even better.
How did it come to this?
There's no secret. Hard work.
When Team Ireland flew to Rio in 2016, the top suits travelled first class, the athletes in economy.
There's not a lot of glamour in good sports administration and there's not a lot of quick fixes.
Hard work.
Hard work reforming structures.
Hard work rebuilding trust.
Hard work in finding the right people with the right skills, and just as importantly, the right values, putting in place proper athlete-centred programmes and the administration and oversight to go with them.
Ireland aspires to be an Olympic frontrunner every four years
Olympic success takes talent but Olympic success also costs money.
With proper structures comes increased funding. Properly targeted that money can find and nurture talent and build across multiple Olympic cycles.
The hope, indeed the plan, would be that Paris 2024 was not the pinnacle.
Ireland now aspires to be on the first page of the medal table every four years. What a prospect that is.
Because what a glorious summer that was ...
Ireland sent its biggest ever Olympic team competing in 15 different sports.
And for a period early in the games it looked like the medals couldn't stop coming.
Mona McSharry's bronze on that first Monday of the games ... in the spectacular cauldron of the La Defense Aquatic Arena.
It was Ireland's first swimming medal in 28 years - Ireland's only swimming medal other than Michelle Smith's.
That record did not last long.
The very next night in the very same venue Daniel Wiffen did as he gestured he would and wrote his name in the history books. Gold. He'd go again later in the week and win bronze.
A spectacular medal haul and yet, one he will be hoping to improve on in three-and-a-half years.
He has already said he wants THREE gold medals in LA.
Kellie Harrington delivers, celebrates, then retires
Ireland had ten boxers in Paris.
To win only one medal will definitely be seen as a disappointment in what is our most successful Olympic sport. But what a medal it was.
Kellie Harrington left it all out there to win her second Olympic gold medal but had enough in the tank for one of the most memorable celebrations in Olympic history. Then she retired.
Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. Goodnight Kellie.
Presuming boxing continues as an Olympic sport, her legacy and inspiration will surely inspire disciples.
On the water, success has come to be expected.
Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle won bronze and, like the postmen whose job it is to deliver, Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy delivered again. Another gold.
Mr O'Donovan will be 34 years of age in Los Angeles and the Olympic lightweight category he has dominated for a decade has been discontinued.
Pull harder.
No bother to the man from Lisheen.
The 'perfect pommel horse routine'
Then there was Rhys McClenaghan.
The pommel horse - a classic Olympic discipline.
The country had shared his disappointment in Tokyo when the tiniest miscalculation had ruined his routine and, be honest, most of us never thought of the pommel horse again for three years.
What must it have been like for McClenaghan who could think of nothing else?
Every day for three years he had to focus on the goal, never look back, never look down, and then under that pressure he delivered what has been described as "the perfect pommel horse routine".
Gold.
And he's not finished yet either. He says he's going for TWO medals in LA.
Bright hopes for the future
And of course there were the brave performances, the nearly medallists and the bright hopes for the future. One name tops the list in all three of those categories.
Rhasidat.
Not many sports people are known by just one name – particularly when they are barely on the runway of their career.
Eamonn Coghlan, one of Irish athletics' greatest ever names never won an Olympic medal.
Two Olympic fourth place finishes in a long and glittering career.
Rhasidat Adeleke had two fourth place finishes in three days. And the beauty and the agony of both will live long in the memory.
A real medal prospect in her own right she lost out down the home straight of the 400m final but had a shot at redemption with the relay team just three days later.
Her performance in the second leg, on a night where the Irish women ran way above the sum of their parts, put the Irish in with a real shout.
For an Irish relay team to challenge the podium right to the line in an Olympic final is one of the great performances, medal or no, of all time.
And then there's the other hopes and the what-might-have-beens.
The sailors, Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove. So near but yet so far.
Ciara Mageean, in the form of her life, who didn’t even get to toe the line.
Will LA 2028, and the memory of her former coach, Jerry Kiernan’s heroic performance there 40 years ago, inspire her to keep going? What a story that might be?
Nicola Tuthill, just 19 in Paris, in the women's hammer throw - a discipline where age and strength have obvious advantages.
Where might she be in 2028 and beyond?
It didn't just happen by accident
All of the other boxers in Paris and, in a sport which keeps on producing, the ones we haven’t even heard of yet?
Ben Healy’s brave ride on the road and Lara Gillespie’s on the track. He's 24. She's 23.
Where once there was just Skibbereen, rowing now has a national high performance centre - still in Cork of course.
And there's always the horses, and the rugby and the golfers now too.
The future looks bright for Team Ireland in the City of Angels and beyond.
But for now we look back on the summer of 2024 as one of the truly great summers of Irish Olympic history.
Take a bow our medallists.
Take a bow our competitors.
Take a bow Sarah Keane.
It didn't just happen by accident.
