An “overwhelming” number of parents want teenagers to be taught how to understand consent as part of fact-based relationship and sex education (RSE), according to the National Parents Council Post-Primary (NPC-PP).

Consent classes are to be rolled out to secondary schools and sports clubs across the country.

Attendances at sexual consent workshops at universities has “skyrocketed” this year following a number of high-profile cases.

Young people’s ambivalence towards what constitutes sexual consent when alcohol is involved is captured in new research which shows that while the majority of college students (86%) agree that alcohol impacts on the ability to give consent, more than a third (37%) feel that a woman can still give consent after drinking heavily.