10% of students go to school unfed

Girls are more likely than boys to keep phones under their pillows at night and nearly two-thirds of second- level students are out of bed between 7am and 8am on schooldays.

These are some of the findings of a questionnaire filled out by 7,150 students in the CensusAtSchool 2012 conducted by the Central Statistics Office.

The youngsters at 216 schools revealed that just over half have cereal for their breakfast, more than one in six had toast, and 6% had a cooked breakfast. But while nearly 10% eat when they get to school or on their way there, one in 10 had no breakfast on the day of the survey.