neanderthals don't wear bobble hats

The Irish National broadcaster RTE has apologised for its transmission of a comedy skit on New Year's Eve purporting to show members of a regionally based organisation styled Kilcullen Community Inaction group dancing naked around sculptor Noel Scullion's tasteless Spear monument at the northern entrance to their town.

The RTE skit came in the form of a fake news cast reporting straight facedly that members of Kilcullen Community Inaction had welcomed in the new year in a pagan orgy centred on the Spear.

A spokesperson for Kilcullen Community Inaction immediately contacted reporters to deny the report and lodged a protest with RTE.

"We were not naked," he screamed calmly. "Our members were wearing bobble hats. Our members were wearing bobble hats on their members. This broadcast is a travesty of a mockery of a travesty of a sham rip off of a Woody Allen travesty of a joke. And as for the spear being tasteless, that is an utter lie. It has a woody taste, sort of crumbly when you really bite into it."

RTE has now denounced itself for disrespecting people who are insufferable whiners.

"We're sorry," said RTE Director General Libby Fembo. "We dropped the balls on this one. From now on we'll stick to insulting the Christian understanding of Deity. It's safer."

The Spear itself had been a subject of controversy earlier this year when Kildare County Council archaeologists mistook it for a neolithic monument erected by primitives in 3000 BC, forgetting that they themselves were the primitives who had erected it just five years ago in 2015 AD.

Kilcullen Community Inaction group was named for their utter inactivity in regard to the Hutch gang moving to our town, their absolute inertia with regard to drug dealing in our schools, and their presentation of a People Of The Year award to thug ex cop Stephen Kinneavey who's been harassing me for a decade,