The Irish Institute of Sport was established and launched in the Summer of 2006 by An Taoiseach at the time; Mr.Bertie Ahern T.D. Our vision is to coordinate and provide world leading service provision to elite Irish athletes.

 The MCR Group is an independently Irish owned broad based specialist service group of companies that was established in 1996.

Since our early days of operating in construction recruitment we have expanded to provide a broad range of service solutions through a number of professional subsidiary companies. In addition to what is now a full range of Recruitment services we also specialise in Steelworks, Security, Waste Management and Contract Cleaning. We deliver these services to many market sectors throughout the whole country employing a workforce of up to 2000 employees.

All MCR companies are run by professional management teams whose expertise, ability and 'can do' approach are unrivalled within their individual sectors. As a result of this a growing number of new clients are benefiting from the MCR approach of enabling clients to fully control and monitor how we deliver our services and amend their own individual service package to suit their constantly changing needs.

 From our humble beginings in Fanad, Co Donegal in 1979, whe have over the past thirty years built a strong business, and are now Ireland's leading producer of Irish Premium Salmon

Donegal Silver was first launched in 1986, and since that tie has become regarded as a sign of consistent quality from a trusted source.

Our Ethos is simple, every day, our local team work in a truly special location to produce the finest salmon, which we proudly present to our customers.

In that time we have developed a strong infrastructure which underpins our mission of producing high quality salmon as sustainably as possible.

The achievement of the various standards and certifications we work to, validates our commitment to working sustainably on a daily basis.

The company started in 1979 as “Fanad Fisheries” having been founded by a group of Irish shareholders led by Anthony Fox, who had up to then been a biology teacher in Dublin. 

The farm started as a sea trout farm, but soon changed to salmon farming as the rearing of rainbow trout proved to be only moderately successful in Mulroy Bay.