In a report on Nairac's alleged involvement in the massacre, published in the "Sunday Mirror" newspaper on 16 May 1999, Colin Wills called the ambush "one of the worst atrocities in the 30-year history of the Troubles". "Irish Times" diarist, Frank McNally, summed up the massacre as "an incident that encapsulated all the madness of the time". In 2011, Journalist Kevin Myers denounced the attack with the following statement: "in its diabolical inventiveness against such a group of harmless and naïve young men, it is easily one of the most depraved the Troubles".