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Tue 02 Feb 2007Study finds high rate of attacks on schoolboysMore than one in three primary schoolboys have been physically attacked in the last three months, according to the preliminary findings of a survey conducted by Trinity College Dublin's Anti-Bullying Centre.The survey, which will be published later this year, found that 35.6 per cent of boys and 19.2 per cent of girls were physically attacked in the previous three months. The children were aged between eight and 12-years-old.