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Wed 06 Jun 2007Third of pupils too hungry to do school work, survey findsUp to a third of primary school pupils in Dublin's south inner city are either often or every day "too hungry to do their work in school", while up to 15 per cent regularly do not get enough sleep, a study on early school leaving has found.The report, Count Us In, found anxiety to be a major factor in lack of sleep among children.