A UCC professor wants members of the public to contribute their opinions and memories on hip-hop to a major research project, writes Ellie O'Byrne.

Ellie O’Byrne paid a visit to the Kabin in Knocknaheeny to see the supportive atmosphere that gave rise to the duo behind the ‘Yeah Boy’ hit.

Ian Ring is a Cork-based music producer, who has recently released ‘Rise’, the debut single from hisBoku project on Soul Jamz Records.

Rugby star Simon Zebo is swapping drop goals for dropping rhymes by giving his backing to a rap track aimed at raising awareness around mental health.

Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel fired his police superintendent after it took 13 months to charge a white policeman with the shooting death of a black teenager.

A six-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” with a gun their father told investigators he obtained illegally from a gang member.

ANYONE familiar with the format of the reality television show, The Secret Millionaire, will know the format: a rich benefactor is covertly embedded in a disadvantaged community to spread his largesse on projects he deems worthy of financial support. 

Extra police officers on Chicago’s streets were not enough to quell a long weekend of violence that ended with 14 people shot dead and dozens more injured.

A secret millionaire has donated a record amount to a youth rap project and to help a suicide support group set up by the parents of a teenager who took her own life after being bullied.

It may be almost three weeks until the All Ireland hurling final, but Cork fans have it all rapped up already.

A 15-year-old girl who performed at Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest name on the ever-increasing murder list in the president's home town.

The wife of an Indian-born lottery winner who was poisoned with cyanide said she was devastated by his death and cannot believe her husband could have had enemies.

Meet the hip-hop kids who’ve got Christmas all rapped up.

Thousands of protesters marched through Chicago in one of the city’s largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a Nato summit.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.

WHAT’S billed as Ireland’s first election rap song has already become an internet sensation.