300 hip-hop wannabes step above the rest

FROM James Brown to Justin Timberlake, hip-hop dancing has been around since the 1950s, and who would have thought it but the Irish are pretty good at it.

Over 300 competitors are expected to compete in the Irish Hip Hop Crew Championships next Saturday at Gleeson Hall in Dublin Institute of Technology.

Now in its fourth year, the event has gone from strength to strength since 2006 when only 50 people took part.