The research was funded by Coimisiún na Meán and the Irish Film Classification Office in collaboration with the Ombudsman for Children’s Office.
Offensive?
The summit of EU leaders in Brussels came to a close with no firm decision being made on what steps ought to be taken to force Poland to toe the line on the EU’s insistence that the EU legal framework ought to have primacy over the constitutions of member states. Part of the impasse is […]
A group describing themselves as Catholics from across the country are set to host a protest / prayer vigil this coming Saturday at RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, in what they describe as “an act of public reparation.” The protest comes after the state-funded broadcaster apologised for the sketch, which, it acknowledged, had caused grave offence. […]
According to an RTE puff piece about its adult, animated satire series, Fantasy Ireland, we Irish ‘can laugh at ourselves’ and poke fun at ‘our sacred cows’. ‘No topic is off limits’. Yeah, right as we are wont to say down in Cork. The only thing that is the stuff of fantasy here is the […]
The taxpayer funded state broadcaster RTÉ has apologised after receiving 600 complaints over a supposedly humourous sketch that was aired during its New Year’s Eve countdown show. There was an outpouring of criticism of the clip and Archbishop Eamon Martin called for it to be removed from the station’s player because it accused God of […]