Media obsession with ‘wicked nuns’ upended by Irish report on Tuam mother and baby home

Readers might remember the sensational claim that went around the world back in 2014 that almost 800 babies had been found in a septic tank on the grounds of an old mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, in the West of Ireland. The claim was made when a local historian, Catherine Corless, had