 chairman, Ken Bates, offered a £100,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for the attackers.At the brothers' Requiem Mass, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor, Dr. Walsh observed that
Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern attended a memorial mass in Dublin for the children.The Progressive Unionist Party, which has political links to the UVF, made no comment that the UVF was implicated in the attack.