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In today’s Irish Times, an article about Drag Queens came back to the subject of, you guessed it, the septic tank conspiracy theory.
The article essentially justified Drag shows for children because opposition to it is rooted in a time in the past when ‘hundreds of Irish children they are so intent on saving ended up in a septic tank’.
It is now a common belief in Ireland that nuns, with permission from the church, shoved the bodies of malnourished children (some of whom they had intentionally murdered (if not all)) by the hundreds (896 on the dot) into a septic tank in Tuam, with some of these bodies flushed down the toilet (possibly after being murdered).
In 2014, a now forgotten Irish Times article actually pointed out the absurdity of the claims.
Written by Rosita Boland, it was entitled Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story.
The subheading said: Catherine Corless’s research revealed that 796 children died at St Mary’s. She now says the nature of their burial has been widely misrepresented.
It opens with:
‘I never used that word ‘dumped’,” Catherine Corless, a local historian in Co Galway, tells The Irish Times. “I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words.”

The Trouble With the Septic Tank Story — Catholic Arena
A forgotten 2014 article exposes the Tuam conspiracy theory.