Overview
- A roadside service at the Kingsmill Memorial Wall followed a Sunday religious service in Bessbrook, with sole survivor Alan Black recalling the violence as “24 hours of evil.”
- Gunmen posing as soldiers stopped a minibus near Whitecross, asked the workers their religion, released the only Catholic, and shot the others, leaving Black critically wounded but alive.
- No one has been convicted, and in 2024 a coroner described the killings as an overtly sectarian attack by the IRA without identifying individuals.
- A police watchdog report in April 2025 detailed major failures in the original investigation, including a wholly insufficient deployment of resources.
- UK and Irish officials offered condolences and Ireland’s justice minister urged anyone with information to come forward, reflecting families’ continuing appeals for truth.