The Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) has ruled that a joke newsflash announcing the death of Pope John Paul II, broadcast on the Eamon Dunphy show last December, was "insensitive" and "highly offensive".
The 'newsflash' went on to say that Cardinal Ratzinger was in charge for the time being.
The BCC said today is was concerned that it was not initially obvious that this was a joke.
The Board of the BCC stated: "It was not until near the end of the 'sketch' that a listener would have been aware that it was a 'spoof' comedy sketch."
Newstalk 106 was also found to have also breached broadcasting legislation with a promotional piece for the Breakfast Show with Eamon Dunphy which featured a man boasting about the number of 'Filipino' women he had sex with.
The BCC stated that, "the scenarios presented included discriminatory references to women, some of which were also racist, lewd sexual descriptions and puerile male bravado."
The BCC upheld four out of 19 complaints and RTÉ also came in for criticism on two counts.
One was for an Eircom advert which did not make clear that their 11811DQ service was a premium line number. The BCC decided that, "the supply of a website address is insufficient to meet this information requirement as it does not inform the listener of the type of call charge applicable to the service."
The other was regarding visual footage, carried on RTÉ's 6.01 News and 9 o'clock News, of a mentally ill man leaving court in handcuffs. These images were judged to be "inappropriate" and "unwarranted".
The Commission was of the opinion that the man's vulnerability outweighed the public interest of including such footage of him and that "the decision of the court clearly indicated the unstable mental condition of the man."