'We have treated our creators appallingly'

Eleanor McEvoy used to top the Irish charts with heartfelt ballads. But today, she’s fighting hard for the intellectual property rights of other musicians, in her role as chairwoman of Imro

Eleanor McEvoy Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Eleanor McEvoy

Role: singer/songwriter and chair of Imro

Age:50

Lives: Co Wexford

Marital status: partner, one daughter and three stepchildren

Favourite book: Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Favourite film: The Shawshank Redemption

Hobbies: tending to a vegetable patch

If you ever see Eleanor McEvoy with headphones on, you should probably leave her alone or you might throw her off her next masterpiece. The singer-songwriter, who penned Only ...