Agtel

Agtel wins in Europe

We’re delighted that our recent successes in Europe have been featured in the latest edition of The Market magazine. You can read the full article online here, and we’ve reproduced the text below here too…

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- Diarmaid Mac Mathúna, Head of Production, Agtel

Agtel wins in Europe

Best known for having its ‘Ear to the Ground’ on home soil, a Dublin media production company has just completed a video for the European Commission about radiation safety.

The video for the Directorate General for Energy is the latest in a series of commissions for the European Commission and the European Parliament that Agtel won following in competitive tenders and the company wishes to build on that success, says head of production Diarmaid Mac Mathúna.

“There is a perception that Dublin is on the edge of things when it comes to European media, but we have proved that is not the case,” he said. “Nevertheless, we are looking to form consortia with European partners to become more successful in winning European public sector tenders, and I’m spending quite a bit of time in Brussels building relationships with media companies there.” Agtel was formed in 1979 by John Cummins and its corporate clients include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the UK’s Department for International Development, GlaxoSmithKline and the European Space Agency, as well as a number of Irish State agencies.

Mac Mathúna said: “The European Space Agency project was the most exciting that I have worked on – I was directing astronauts while they were in space, and when the video arrived for editing it still had the velcro attached that was used to stop it from floating away.” In the world of television, Agtel’s sister company, Independent Pictures, has produced mainstream programmes for RTE, BBC Northern Ireland and TG4. Mac Mathúna said: “I think our TG4 work has really helped, because it has given us plenty of experience of working in non-English media. One of our DVDs for the European Parliament was produced in 30 different languages.”