As well as been awarded for his musical success, Garth Brooks is also modest when it comes to talking about his fame and fortune: "I don't feel big" he said. "You're inside the bubble and you really can't stand out and look at it."

At thirty-six, Garth Brooks has already toured the world over and has enjoyed some tremendous concerts along the way including Croke Park in Dublin which he described as "fabulous" and "the most religious experience I've ever had."

A devoted family man, he also spoke about his wife Sandy, the girls and his mother who was very sick during the year but is now thankfully doing well. Garth Brooks has presently no intentions to change the direction of his career: "It's been a great ride" so far he says and long may it continue.

The result is a masterpiece with the documentary receiving rave reviews from the critics. In discussing the making of the film, Pat Comer told us that he had tried to make the documentary in the past but unfortunately it failed to come together because of one thing or another. One such example was in 1989 when Galway were going for their third All Ireland senior hurling title but lost the semi-final to Tipperary. The footage remained on the cutting room floor. Pat sees the documentary as much more than just about sport: "it's a lot richer and deeper than just scores - it's very special." It's been a busy year for Comer and Co and with the Sam Maguire been paraded all around the country, Pat has been lucky enough to been one of three lads that had the honour of parading Sam around Parkhead in Scotland last Saturday. "All thirty guys would have loved to have done it," he said. The documentary is already sold out in Galway and Dublin, which is definitely no surprise to anyone who has already seen it.

The Christmas Panto will be running all through the festive season so try and get along to see it at the Olympia

Cathy Vard has just released her debut solo album but she is already a household name helped by the fact that her very first release along with her two sisters was one of the biggest selling Irish albums during 1997/98. It stayed in the top thirty for forty-four consecutive weeks. On Saturday's show she performed a beautiful song called "A world within" taken from the new album called "Follow your heart".

In the run up to the Millennium, the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Síle deValera has commissioned a number of distinguished Irish composers as part of the nation-wide 'Ceol Reoite: Frozen music' pre-millennium project. The title comes from Goethe's famous dictum ' architecture is frozen music' and so they have matched composers with buildings. Irish composer Ronan Hardiman from the Lord of the Dance fame has been matched with the Waterways visitor centre in Dublin, which from now on is going to be known as the musical box on the docks. The piece he performed on Kenny Live was called "The silver swans of Goldenbridge."

With Christmas being a family time, Kenny live decided to invite a brother and sister onto the show to perform. Both super recording artists in their own right Dolores and Sean Keane have recently teamed up together to record a single for the benefit of the Omagh fund. It is a Tommy Sands tune called "Like the first time it's Christmas time, " and all money from the sale of the record is going to the Omagh charity fund.

There were three clues given on the show on as follows:

1. You won't catch fish with this one
2. The old word for junior
3. A global communications network

The answer was: Internet

On Kenny Live, December 12th we contacted the winning entry that had been drawn from the thousands of entries but unfortunately they were not at home when our roving reporter Fiona McShane called to their door. The rules are that if "your not in you can't win" therefore Pat was forced to pick out another entry on this week's show whom he called on Saturday's programme with the exciting news. The winner was Ita Lynch, Stillorgan, Dublin so well done to her. Nevertheless, their was a consolation prize of a brand new computer and a year's free connection to Ireland On Line for Breda Fenton who was unfortunately out when we called to her door the previous week.

On December 12th we told you about Telecom Éireann teaming up with Kenny Live to bring someone a huge surprise this Christmas. Because it was such a big surprise, we couldn't tell you what it was. However all was revelled on Saturday night. We asked you during the week leading up to Saturday's show to call the big surprise freephone telephone number and answer the following question in order to be in with a chance of winning some special prizes.

The question was as follows: Bing Crosbie duetted with a rock star on the Christmas, Little Drummer Boy - who was that rock star?

The answer was: David Bowie

During Saturday's show, Pat Kenny rang four of the lucky winners who had rung the freephone big surprise hotline. In part one he rang the first winner and gave away œ1,000. In part two he called a second winner and gave away £2,000 and so on to part four where he made one lucky winner very happy indeed with a prize of £4,000. So congratulations to one and all.

In conjunction with the RTE Guide, Kenny Live launched their annual two car give-away on Saturday's programme. This year we have two top of the range Opel Corsas, one for the winner and one to be donated to a charity of his or her choice. The car is the latest addition to Opel's stylish Corsa range. It's a three-door hatchback and it's powered by a nippy but economical 16 valve 1.2 engine ideal for both country and city driving. It comes at a retail price of £11, 650 and Opel will throw in 12 months free road tax on all new Opel Corsas.

On the show Pat gave out the following three clues:

1. It's been conceived, it's not yet born, but it's already been christened several times.
2. I'm afraid there'll be no room for you in this high-rise.
3. I wonder would the one eyed admiral be happy with his replacement?

All you need to do is fill in the coupon in the Christmas RTE Guide, page 46 and don't forget to nominate the charity of your choice. Send it to P.O Box 1020, Dublin 4 - to reach us no later than Thursday, January 7th and remember to tell us where you will be watching the show on January 9th.

In association with Kenny Live, "Barry's Tea", organised a "golden moment" last Christmas where a family in Australia was reunited with their family here in Ireland. It turned out to be a huge success with thousands of entries sent into Kenny Live. In November we decided to run the competition again in association with Barry's Tea. We asked you to write into to us explaining "why they deserve to be brought home".

On Saturday's programme - the last before the Christmas festivities, Kenny Live announced the winning entry sent in from Ciarán Smith, Carnmore, Oranmore, Co. Galway. He wrote the letter in relation to his sister Finnoula who is married in Australia. She is a nurse in the Children's Cancer Unit of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. Her first child was a most beautiful brown-eyed girl called Alana. In November 1994 - because of her work she diagnosed her own child as having leukaemia. Alana died in 1996 nearly three years old. After time Finnoula returned to work, to the same ward to help other children and their parents. Last year she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl Eleanor whom Finnoula's mother had still not seen.

However to their shock and surprise of Finnoula's mother and family who were seating in the audience during Saturday night's show, Pat Kenny announced that this was the winning entry and that Finnoula, husband Joe and seven month old Eleanor were in fact backstage. Needless to say there were tearful scenes when the two families were eventually re-united. Only Ciarán who had written the letter knew about the "golden moment" that was in store for the family.