IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Aine Hegarty
But much have things really changed when you see how many vulnerable kids in state care are dying every year
Good Catholic Ireland really was a sick and brutal place.
Revelations that the bodies of 800 vulnerable children were dumped into a septic tank at a home run by nuns in Tuam, Co Galway, are stomach-churning.
The remains of innocent youngsters ranging in age from newborns to nine-year-olds were found stacked in the mass unmarked grave.
The full extent of the horror was uncovered by local historian Catherine Corless who was researching the history of the home run by the Bon Secours order of nuns from 1925 until 1961.
The mass grave was found by two boys who were playing in a field in 1995. They found a broken concrete slab and when they lifted it up discovered it was filled to the top with human bones and skulls.
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