About

Experienced enough to know the rules.

Thirty years ago, Walker Communications started as a two person creative operation in Belfast. Over three decades it grew into an integrated agency trusted by some of the best known names on the island of Ireland. In 2025 we re-branded as Gone Rogue. Not because the work changed, because the thinking got sharper.

Location

Belfast to Dublin...

Our main office is in Belfast, on the Holywood Road. Our Dublin team sits in Fitzwilliam Square. Both offices are full-service. Both talk to each other constantly.

Covering the island of Ireland isn’t a marketing claim, it’s how our client list works. We understand both markets because we’re in both markets.

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1995
In 1995 Walker Communications was founded as a two person creative operation in Belfast.
2024
In 2024 Walker Communications relocated from its home in Holywood town centre to a newly built office on the Holywood Road
2025
In 2025 Walker Communications re-branded to Gone Rogue.

Culture

We treat every market as local.

The riskiest thing most brands do is look exactly like their competitors.

How we think

Most agencies describe their process. We’d rather explain our instincts — because the process is just how we apply them.

We challenge the brief

Not to be awkward. Because the presenting problem is usually not the real problem. When a client comes to us asking for a new logo, we ask what’s changed. When they ask for a social media strategy, we ask what they actually want people to do.

Challenging the brief doesn’t mean ignoring it. It means making sure we’re solving the right thing before we start building.

We say a lot with a little

Thirty years of experience in this market has convinced us that clarity is harder than complexity, and more valuable. The best brief is one page. The best ad doesn’t need explaining. The best brand makes sense the moment you see it.

We’re not interested in impressive ideas that don’t work in practice.

We treat every market as local

Belfast and Dublin are not London. Retail, culture, politics, trust — they all work differently here. We know the media owners, the planning committees, the communities that will receive the work.

That’s not something you pick up from a rate card. It takes time. We’ve put in that time.

We back the bold idea, but always with the why

Going Rogue is not a posture. We do it when the evidence supports it: when the expected route is genuinely the wrong one, and a braver call will produce a better outcome.

Risk isn’t recklessness. The riskiest thing most brands do is look exactly like their competitors.

We’re honest about what we don’t know

We won’t take a brief we can’t serve well. We won’t tell you a channel is working when it isn’t. We won’t hand you a strategy built on assumptions we haven’t tested.

That’s not humility for its own sake. It’s how we protect relationships. Some of our clients have been with us for over a decade. We’d like to keep it that way.

Team

Our award winning team.

Senior enough to be commercially useful.

15 people across strategy, creative, design, production, social, media, and accounts. We also work with a trusted network of specialist freelancers when the brief demands it.

Creative Director

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Peter Higgins

Managing Director

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Cathy O’Hare

Director

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David McGrath

Design Director

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Gavin Livingston

Contact

Let's talk.

Not a discovery call dressed up as a pitch, just a conversation to figure out if we’re a good fit for what you’re trying to do.

+44 (0)28 9042 5555