Union & Non-Union Talent Management

Here is how this works in practice. Ireland's union landscape blends domestic collective bargaining with North American reciprocity in a way that demands careful daily running. Our union desk handles Irish Equity (the entertainment division of SIPTU. Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union. Ireland's largest union and the historical heir to the Jim Larkin/James Connolly labour custom) for performer agreements in the Republic. British Equity for Northern Ireland talent and any GoT-era shoots still running through Titanic Studios Belfast. SAG-AFTRA Global Rule One enforcement for US shoots filming here.

Here is the short of it. We negotiate against the Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) collective bargaining benchmarks, manage IATSE Local 891 and Local 600 pension/health portability forms for visiting US camera and grip departments. File DGA director deal memos through the DGA Foreign Productions desk. Set up WGA-aligned writer forms via the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild. Major shoots shot here under union conditions have Vikings (Ashford Studios), Foundation (Troy Studios Limerick). The Tudors and Penny Dreadful (Ardmore). Game of Thrones (Titanic Studios Belfast. All eight seasons), Banshees of Inisherin, The Wonder, Normal People (HBO), and Belfast.

Here is the breakdown. Our talent-management way covers the full Irish performer canon at each union tier. We work with the agents and managers behind Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer Best Actor Oscar 2024, Peaky Blinders), Saoirse Ronan (four Best Actress Oscar noms. Atonement, Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women). Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor Oscars including My Left Foot). Colin Farrell (Banshees of Inisherin Best Actor nom), Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson, Andrew Scott, Aidan Turner, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, and the emerging Cork and Dublin talent pools.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. On the tech side we set up with IATSE 891 portable-crew forms for Robbie Ryan (The Favourite Oscar nom, Poor Things Oscar nom) and Seamus McGarvey (Atonement Oscar nom) DP departments. We file RAAP (Recorded Artists Actors Performers) royalty forms for ongoing residuals, manage SCAPR global clearances, and handle bilingual Irish-language records for TG4 and Gaeltacht-set shoots following the Quiet Girl model. 100% union-compliance tracking runs in real time across each production we touch.