You would have imagined that RTé would have pulled Hook In Haiti, a programme set to air tomorrow on RTé One. Filmed months before the earthquake in Port Au Prince, surely it is in questionable taste to air an "uplifting" documentary about George Hook and various volunteers building houses in Haiti for the Niall Mellon-a-like charity, Haven. But sticking stringently to the television schedule, RTé have stuck with broad­casting the documentary, providing promotional photos of Hook cheerily painting walls and hugging a Haitian child.

One wonders if the programme will end up taking the emphasis away from the "big hearted volunteers" and focus in any way on one of the world's greatest humanitarian disasters. Far be it from RTé to allow an international disaster to get in the way of the screening of a parochial documentary, but couldn't they have held off on this, or cancelled it altogether?