The Meteor Music Awards.

2 Feb 2006. The Point Theatre, Irelands premiere music venue, hosts the sixth edition of the Meteor Awards with Irish comedian Patrick Kielty presenting. 17 awards will be presented including Best Irish Band, Best Irish Male, Best Irish Female and Best Irish Pop Act as well as various awards for international categories. The Irish boy-band Westlife is to perform at the award ceremony and is tipped to be award winners once again this year. U2 are favourites to win the Best Irish Band Award and Damien Dempsey, Joe Chester and Christy Moore are the top three contenders for Best Irish Male singer. Music fans can vote for their favourite star or band in the six public vote categories, and tickets are available to win in newspapers, on TV and radio and through text messages and online voting on www.meteor.ie. Tickets to the star-studded evening are not on sale but can only be won, apart from corporate tickets at 100 each which will raise money for charity. This years recipient of the Humanitarian Award (and 100,000) is Father Peter McVerry, founder of the Arrupe Society which helps homeless boys in Dublin. Doors open at 19.00 and show starts at 20.00.