It’s more a case of straight outta Cork rather than straight outta Compton, as a music professor from University College Cork has landed a €2m research grant to undertake the world’s first global study of hip-hop music and culture.

Some of the ace faces of the Irish scene tell Jonathan deBurca Butler about their musical highlights of 2017.

As they release their new album today in Cork, Rusangano Family tell Don O’Mahony of their life-changing sojourn to the SXSW festival.