Nightlive sketch on sick children ‘utterly offensive’

COMPLAINTS by viewers that a sketch on RTÉ 2’s Nightlive programme was “sick, utterly offensive and breached all sense of decency” have been upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

The spoof news show poked fun at children dying of leukaemia and a boy in a wheelchair wearing an oxygen mask.

The BCC upheld two complaints out of a total of 20 adjudicated upon last month.