Leading from the start Welsh driver Steve Wood (Subaru WRC) and his Limerick co-driver Keith Moriarty took a relatively comfortable victory in the Volkswagen Wexford Rally where they finished 40 seconds ahead of the Fiesta WRC of Maynooth’s Ian Barrett/Eoin O’Flaherty. 

Regaining and rebuilding confidence can be a slow process for many rally drivers. Tomorrow’s Wexford Volkswagen Rally is a case in point for the top two seeds, Tyrone’s Paddy McVeigh and Welsh ace Steve Wood. Earlier this season Wood crashed his Subaru WRC out of the Abbeyleix Rally while McVeigh has been involved in a few skirmishes that altered the shape of his S12B Subaru — a championship-winning car in the hands of Cavan’s Patrick Elliott.

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The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett tells Ed Power of his rage against the commercial makeover of their genre

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The Prodigy will release their sixth studio album in March.

The Prodigy have promised their new album will be an antidote to "DJ b******s".

MUSIC NEWS: Neil Young has already found a replacement bassist for Billy Talbot after the Crazy Horse founding member suffered a "mild stroke".

You pretty much know what you’re going to get with a Prodigy gig, and last night at the Marquee in Cork they again managed to tick those quality boxes they’ve been filling in since they first burst on the scene in the early 1990s.

Although not a round of the Dunlop series, tomorrow’s Kilkenny-based Raven’s Rock Rally has still attracted an entry in excess of 100 crews along with 18 competitors in the junior category.

The Prodigy have been voted the best dance act of all time in a poll by long-running dance magazine Mixmag.

The Prodigy will not change their sound to embrace dubstep on their new album.

WHAT appeared to be a cracking entry for Sunday’s Kilkenny-based Suirway Farm Machinery Raven’s Rock Rally, the fifth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, has been decimated by a series of withdrawals.

The 'Umbrella' hitmaker Rihanna - who was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown last February - was keen to record a track with the duo's singer Elly Jackson, but the British star admits she is still waiting to be approached.

The Prodigy will collaborate with Dizzee Rascal on their next album.

Noel Gallagher is “not thinking about” his brother Liam anymore.

Liam Gallagher's son is "obsessed" with his uncle's group The Prodigy.

The Prodigy insist that they regard writing songs and performing for fans as the most important elements of their career and are unconcerned with record sales or awards.

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has married his long-term partner Nicole Appleton.

Prodigy singer Keith Flint is set to wed long-term love Mayumi Kai in England on Saturday.

Promoters MCD confirmed award-winning band Green Day would lead the line-up on day one of the Oxegen July weekend event with American rockers Foo Fighters rounding off 48 hours of excess at Punchestown.

The Prodigy star Liam Howlett is deeply ashamed of the band's last single, which he dismisses as "a f**king load of sh*t".

Nicole and Natalie Appleton have spent most of the last five years in the limelight.

Nicole Appleton says baby son Gene takes after his father, Liam Gallagher, in many ways.

The Prodigy will release their new album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned in March next year.