There is a premises called Galway Pain Clinic on St Augustine Street, Galway, across the road from the Department of Agriculture and Food's District Veterinary Office.
Yesterday, the area between the two buildings was crowded with farmers from along the west coast who were convinced they had taken enough pain from civil servants, the Government and the courts.
They had come to protest over the Civil and Public Services Union dispute, which had left them without the necessary paperwork to move their cattle for sale.
And, on what one of their speakers called the "street of pain", the bitterness against the Government, the strikers and the system flowed like lava from a volcano.
They were, they said, the jam in the sandwich in a bitter 12-week dispute in which civil servants were looking for promotion and had been locked out by the Department of Agriculture.
The men from Galway, Limerick, Kerry, Mayo and Clonalkity, Co Cork, found themselves without income, unable to move stock. This was especially difficult for farmers who had cattle with bovine TB and brucellosis.
They had come to the "street of pain" before. Six weeks ago, they had occupied the Department's offices in Galway to highlight their difficulties.
There, the meeting was told, they had been given assurances that hardship cases would be dealt with despite the dispute, but that had not happened.
"We went to Dublin to protest and we were treated like pigs in the Department of Agriculture. We were not allowed to bring in a sandwich. We were not allowed to use the toilets, and they broke the deal there, too," said Mr Brendan O'Mahoney, Connacht vice-president of the IFA.
Yesterday, they came back, but without the sick animals they had threatened to bring with them to slaughter in the streets. That was because they had been told that the strike was almost resolved.
"There was a rumour that we were going to bring cattle in here and shoot them this morning," said Mr Michael Silke, the farmer who had led the protest. "I would have been man enough to do that if none of the rest of you had not. It's that bad," he added.