The septic tank story is the way this came in the new originally. Sensationalist? I don't know, pretty solid news outlets like RTE reported it that way, based, one assumes, on the fact the area was marked on some older maps as 'septic' tank.

As soon as more clarity came to the issue this was corrected.

My own issue with this news was the priest who came on the original news item to say there was nothing to see there, just move along, it's all old stuff anyway. And I wasn't exactly the only one who took offence at that, if some of the comments locally are to be taken into account. I must stress here that the downplaying of the situation came well before there was more clarity so it's fair to say it was the kneejerk reaction some would expect. There was, at that point, no call for clarity or looking into the matter just the denial anything untoward could have come to light. And that's where this thread started.