North's children making sectarian comments
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1.00 News: Declan McBennett talks to the authors of the report on sectarianism amongst children in the North
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Morning Ireland: Dr Paul Connolly of the University of Ulster, one of the authors of the report Too Young to Notice, explains his findings
The University of Ulster study looked at community divisions. It found that 15% of six-year-olds were making sectarian comments.
One of the researchers, Dr Paul Connolly, said that the separate education of the two denominations had a bearing on the findings.
A number of education policy initiatives have been recommended to tackle the early negative influences.
Three hundred and fifty two children across the North were questioned for the survey.
The survey found that three-year-old Protestant children were twice as likely to prefer the Union Jack to the Irish tricolour as Catholics of the same age.
By the age of six, a third of children surveyed had identified with one of the two main communities.
