VIDEOS: Advice on protecting your child online

SMARTPHONES are the most used device for Internet access among Ireland’s nine to 16-year-olds according to the 2014 Net Children Go Mobile study.

And a top concern cited by parents to online protection expert Dr Maureen Griffin is how to monitor children’s activity, now that it has become so mobile.

“It’s not just one easily-monitored computer in the house anymore,” says Dr Griffin, a forensic psychologist.