Martin McEvoy’s first love was music, not recruitment. The managing partner of senior executive search firm Signium Ireland was playing gigs several nights a week in the late 1970s while studying marketing at DIT on Parnell Square. It was the era of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, and McEvoy’s own group adopted the tongue-in-cheek name “Fit Kilkenny and the Remoulds,” inspired by a well-known tyre repair business of the time.  “I only saw U2 play live once. It was a Hot Press gig which we were headlining, and U2 opened for us. They had promise, but their sound that…

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