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).

Fri, 20 Mar, 2009 - 00:00

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.

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