University professor sounds warning over schools' rugby

Bigger, faster, stronger. Schools rugby is becoming more and more like a professional sport. But how safe is it for children? An academic in england says youngsters are regularly harmed playing the sport and warns that levels of injury are not being properly monitored.

Others say there are great benefits from playing rugby but do they outweigh the risks?

JOHN LAVERTY is the executive editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Retired school principal Andy McMorran