The Mushroom Task Force report was in, after being set up in 2003. Recommendations were detailed and copious on all sector matters, including supply and marketing, composting, promotion, research and the environment.
Meanwhile in Navan there was brouhaha surrounding the erection of a mobile phone mast - simpler times.
Mushroom Business were looking at ruffling. Atlantic Mushrooms were subsumed by Monaghan and word was the McGeary operation in Armagh was losing large numbers of workers. It was all happening way back then!