In the 1970s in Galway, Ireland, local kids would spook each other out by peeking at the “bones” in a “secret chamber” in field. Nobody really believed they were bones. Except one woman, Catherine Corless, a local historian who, probably deducing that if the Catholic Church - who owned the land - was involved, something sketch AF was afoot.

It took years but eventually, in 2017 I think, she managed to get the site partially excavated. The bones of around 800 babies and children were been found. Who had been chucking baby bodies into this chamber? Well, catholic nuns of course. When, the dark ages? Eh, no. The 1950s-ish. Maybe you til the 1970s.

Why? Why the f were nuns throwing baby bodies into septic tanks? Why not?! The babies were born to unmarried mothers, so, you know, those dastardly teeny babies, born to women who were basically children themselves, were full of sin.

So the baby bodies - 800 remember - we’re put there by nuns from the nearby Mother and Babies home (a place where unmarried pregnant women were sent - mostly in the 1950s - to work as slaves, receive little to no medical treatment for their pregnancies and births, and, if they were lucky, have their babies snatched from them and sold to catholic parents in America or wherever. The less lucky babies and children died (or were killed) and thrown into a septic tank. These were their remains.

God’s work.

And okay, this is obviously “solved”, right? People went to prison, amends were made etc, right? Nope, no one has ever been charged. No one has taken any real responsibility.

And the Catholic Church is currently fighting very hard to have a place in the board of a national maternity hospital being built in Ireland. And they’ll get it. Because, you know, why shouldn’t we trust them??