Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed concerns about children getting phones at a “very young age” and turning away from sport.
New research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found that 54% of nine-year-old children own their own phones. This is an increase of 10% in the last decade.
There was also a drop in the number of children taking part in sport, falling from 44% to 34% playing sport almost every day.
