Looking back at March 2016, there were the first rumblings about gene editing - the new CRISPR technology that was set to change the world of food and medicine.
IKEA were switching their packaging to mushroom based solutions. Sales of exotic mushrooms were soaring - up by 25 percent.
There was a note on the oil prices being low back then - in January of that year oil was at a low of $28 a barrel. A world away from where we are now.
Funnily enough that January month in 2016 was Dublin’s wettest since 1948.
