Actor Cillian Murphy backs empathy plan for pupils

Acclaimed actor, Cillian Murphy, has concerns for his children in the era of smartphones and social media.

He is promoting a new scheme to boost empathy in young people.

The Corkman, most recently seen in his recurring role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC’s Peaky Blinders, is a patron of the Unesco Child and Family Research Centre and its Empathy Education Project, which is being piloted in six schools, with plans to roll it out elsewhere.