Unspeakable scandal which shames us all

A HUGE dig is to get under way for the remains of the 800 Tuam babies – the lost children of Ireland. And about bloody time too.

For decades the innocents were treated in the most appalling manner.

What could be worse than throwing their little bodies into old septic tanks?

Shame on the Catholic Church. Shame on the governments of the time.

Shame on us as a society for allowing such an unspeakable atrocity to happen.

The mother and baby home operated from 1925 to 1961 but it was more like a house of horrors where babies ended up in a mass grave.

The tiny tots were treated worse than animals when they died from a series of illnesses.

The nuns in the Catholic Church-run institution thought so little of them they didn’t even given them a Christian burial.

Instead the angels were seen as waste and dumped, not worthy of being called humans.

Terrified young unmarried mothers were looked upon as having committed an evil act – and their little angels as “born in sin”.

But the only sin in this sorry saga was carried out by the Church and the twisted old demon nuns in Tuam.

The scandal would never have been uncovered had it not been for the never-giveup attitude of campaigner Catherine Corless.

The remains of these lost children must all be found, identified and given a proper Christian farewell.

It is the least we can do.