Eimear Noone: From east Galway to the Oscars and the struggles she faced along the way

Eimear Noone made headlines as the first woman to conduct at the Oscars - it is just one of many strings to the Galway native's bow. As she takes to the stage in Cork as the keynote speaker at The Irish Examiner's ieStyle Live event, Clodagh Finn meets an Irish powerhouse 

Eimear Noone is very hopeful for the next generation of Irish women.

Conductor and composer Eímear Noone had AC/DC thumping in her ears when she walked into a courtroom in California in 2016 to sue a former employer for pregnancy discrimination after she was fired while pregnant with her first son.