The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Media Niamh Smyth has called on RTÃ to remove a controversial sketch about God from its media player.
Ms Smyth, who is also Fianna Failâs partyâs spokeperson for Arts and Culture, described the sketch which has prompted almost 6,000 complaints to RTÃ as âdeeply offensive and blasphemousâ.
The Waterford Whisper News skit caused widespread offence when the former newsreader Aengus Mac Grianna read out a mock bulletin stating that God had been arrested on charges of sexual harassment for âforcing himself on a young Middle Eastern migrant and allegedly impregnating her against her willâ.