The Continuity IRA is the only implacable group rooted in a threadbare legitimist fiction, spun by a sad old sea-green incorruptible from County Roscommon. While it is true that the Éire Nua document of 1969 put forward one model that could, in the right circumstances, be discussed and appeared to make allowances for different traditions, the bombs that went off subsequently drowned out – and continue to drown out – that message. One cannot attach credibility to attempts at conciliation if all the time one is using, deploying and threatening force.