Irish viewers react to Shane McGowan and Philomena Begley's version of Fairytale of New York on RTE Late Late Show

The new year began with a truly frightening start for Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, who were forced to flee their New York City apartment after the building caught fire Wednesday morning.

The state of New York has offered up a $3.5 million grant in order to help with the construction of a Hip Hop museum in the Bronx, according to the New York Post. The museum would be the first like it in the world. With a total price tag of $80 million, the Universal Hip Hop Museum is set to open in 2023 in the genre, culture and movement's birthplace, the South Bronx.

Recorded in the summer of 1987 and released later that year, The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" famously never made it to number one in the U.K. first time around, held off the top spot by Pet Shop Boys’ version of “Always On My Mind.” The song, which took over two years to write and features the late, great Kirsty MacColl, has come close several times in the

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped the nation's first museum dedicated to hip-hop, the Bronx's Universal Hip-Hop Museum, get way closer to opening its doors last week when he granted the organization dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the genre a $3.75 million state grant.

Publications across the globe are announcing their favourite pop culture moments, from telly to music.

Kanye West’s opera Mary is heading to New York City. The show will take place December 22 at Lincoln Center‘s David Geffen Hall and will feature the Sunday Service collective; the announcement features a bible verse from Matthew 1:20. Mary was first performed earlier this month on the water at Miami Marine Stadium during Art Basel. It was directed by Vanessa Beecroft. In a new interview with Vogue about the opera, he revealed that its original working title was Birth of Jesus.

On a rainy Monday night in New York City (Dec. 16), Glamberts from all around the tri-state area gathered together in the Lower East Side's Bowery Ballroom, now transformed to resemble the interior of a shimmering disco ball, to watch their favorite glam-rock star deliver a stunning show.

Debbie Harry and Jesse Malin took the stage at a benefit concert for the Joe Strummer Foundation on Saturday (Dec. 14) to deliver a rollicking cover of the Pogues' 1987 hit "Fairytale of New York."

Shane MacGowan has defended the use of the word f****t in his iconic Christmas favourite Fairytale of New York. Some radio stations now only play an edited version after complaints about the lyric in the 1987 hit.