Updated / Monday, 11 Jan 2021 12:43 Will Goodbody: The memories of witnessing the deserted streets and boarded-up shops in Dublin city centre will never leave me It was the week of March 8 that the penny properly dropped that things were about to really change and not in a good way, says Will Goodbody, RTÉ Business Editor, recalling a momentous year Over the previous weeks we'd watched and began to report on how a strange new virus was starting to spread around the globe. From my point of view, that reporting was focused on the growing impact it was beginning to have on world markets, on Irish and international supply chains and on the huge economy of China.