In our second blog, we wanted to introduce ourselves a little and tell you what we do – and why!

Shines is a family-run business based in Killybegs in the wonderful county of Donegal. As you might have guessed seafood is our main game! We produce a range of healthy food products for the Irish market as well as for the UK, Europe and indeed the whole world.

The company comprises three of us: Marianne, John and Ciara – all of us are Shines. We basically do all the main tasks involved in running a small Irish food producer.

Our family has been involved in the fishing industry in here on the west coast of Ireland in one form or another for the past 40 years and more. During that time, we have all learnt an awful lot about the sector and about what people want in their diets.

Our love of Irish fish also made us want to source Irish albacore tuna as one of our products and to introduce it to the Irish market. Albacore tuna is exquisite, unique and a real speciality product. Full of flavour and full of goodness!

We also do various other tinned fish and fish in jars including regular wild tuna, mackerel and sardines. These come in a variety of sauces as well as in brine and olive oil. They are all great-tasting Irish products in one way or another.

We also now do a range of Irish pates as well as a whole host of useful merchandise like bags for life and lemon juicers. And then there’s our range of Christmas hampers, gift hampers and corporate gifting ideas.

To be honest, the above is merely a snapshot of what Shines does and we will be telling you a lot more about our small family business and our products in the weeks and months to come.

Our motto from the early days is: ‘Once tasted, always loved’. This now applies to all the food we produce. Our aim is to provide consumers with products that are tasty, nutritious, good for you, Irish and good value for money. So that once you taste Shines, you’ll love Shines!