Joe Offer said we should wait for the full facts to come out. He then said it didn't happen.

A wee bit of consistency please Joe. To date, I read your posts because you give a perspective that may be less than objective, but is at least genuine. Believe me, on some threads around here, that alone is a welcome relief.

Whether it were 800 or just one, the evidence to date does seem to suggest that babies and young children were, for the crime of being born out of religious wedlock, starved to death and not given a burial in line with the religion that was complicit in their murder.

There is no sensationalism in that statement above. If one baby was tossed in a cesspit or septic tank, it was done by people whose superstition meant that you had to be buried in line with their rules in order to enjoy the jam tomorrow they promise their members. Callous isn't quite strong enough is it?

If we need to bandy around the numbers to ease collective conscience, I can live with that, but with no prejudice whatsoever as to the heinous crime itself. Stalin once said that a single death is a tragedy and a million deaths a statistic. Don't go all Stalinist on us eh? (He trained as a priest if my history books haven't been revised just yet...)

Folk singers wanting to wait for the official history to be written? Since when?