Kneecap on new music, a united Ireland, and how they became part of a Fassbender film 

In advance of gigs in Cork and other centres, the Irish-language rappers also reveal they won't be toning down their message just because they have a new record deal 

Kneecap play Cork City Hall in December. Picture: Patrick Glennon @ptgphotos

Of all the headlines that Belfast gael-rappers Kneecap have generated in their controversial career to date, the latest may have been the strangest.

Forget the time they caused outrage in the UK press for leading a pub chant of “Brits out” on the hallowed ground of a hostelry recently occupied by some British royals, or the Lego set featuring Kneecap with a burning PSNI van behind them, or the tour poster of a cartoon Arlene Foster strapped to a rocket.