diff --git a/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/runtime/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/jaxrs/SseBroadcasterImpl.java b/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/runtime/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/jaxrs/SseBroadcasterImpl.java
index 1a5b77c30badc..1700f89b43a93 100644
--- a/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/runtime/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/jaxrs/SseBroadcasterImpl.java
+++ b/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/runtime/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/jaxrs/SseBroadcasterImpl.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.server.jaxrs;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -37,8 +38,9 @@ public synchronized void onClose(Consumer<SseEventSink> onClose) {
     public synchronized void register(SseEventSink sseEventSink) {
         Objects.requireNonNull(sseEventSink);
         checkClosed();
-        if (sseEventSink instanceof SseEventSinkImpl == false)
+        if (sseEventSink instanceof SseEventSinkImpl == false) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can only work with Quarkus-REST instances: " + sseEventSink);
+        }
         ((SseEventSinkImpl) sseEventSink).register(this);
         sinks.add(sseEventSink);
     }
@@ -50,20 +52,62 @@ public synchronized CompletionStage<?> broadcast(OutboundSseEvent event) {
         CompletableFuture<?>[] cfs = new CompletableFuture[sinks.size()];
         for (int i = 0; i < sinks.size(); i++) {
             SseEventSink sseEventSink = sinks.get(i);
-            cfs[i] = sseEventSink.send(event).toCompletableFuture();
+            CompletionStage<?> cs;
+            try {
+                cs = sseEventSink.send(event).exceptionally((t) -> {
+                    // do not propagate the exception to the returned CF
+                    // apparently, the goal is to close this sink and not report the error
+                    // of the broadcast operation
+                    notifyOnErrorListeners(sseEventSink, t);
+                    return null;
+                });
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                // do not propagate the exception to the returned CF
+                // apparently, the goal is to close this sink and not report the error
+                // of the broadcast operation
+                notifyOnErrorListeners(sseEventSink, e);
+                cs = CompletableFuture.completedFuture(null);
+            }
+            cfs[i] = cs.toCompletableFuture();
         }
         return CompletableFuture.allOf(cfs);
     }
 
+    private void notifyOnErrorListeners(SseEventSink eventSink, Throwable throwable) {
+        // We have to notify close listeners if the SSE event output has been
+        // closed (either by client closing the connection (IOException) or by
+        // calling SseEventSink.close() (IllegalStateException) on the server
+        // side).
+        if (throwable instanceof IOException || throwable instanceof IllegalStateException) {
+            notifyOnCloseListeners(eventSink);
+        }
+        onErrorListeners.forEach(consumer -> {
+            consumer.accept(eventSink, throwable);
+        });
+    }
+
+    private void notifyOnCloseListeners(SseEventSink eventSink) {
+        // First remove the eventSink from the outputQueue to ensure that
+        // concurrent calls to this method will notify listeners only once for a
+        // given eventSink instance.
+        if (sinks.remove(eventSink)) {
+            onCloseListeners.forEach(consumer -> {
+                consumer.accept(eventSink);
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
     private void checkClosed() {
-        if (isClosed)
+        if (isClosed) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("Broadcaster has been closed");
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
     public synchronized void close() {
-        if (isClosed)
+        if (isClosed) {
             return;
+        }
         isClosed = true;
         for (SseEventSink sink : sinks) {
             // this will in turn fire close events to our listeners