On Tuesday night, RTE television screened the first part of a new series called Bombers.
The documentary reconstructed some of the worst outrages of the Troubles, and also included poignant interviews with victims as well as graphic contemporary footage from the aftermath of explosions.
Among the cases placed under the spotlight were the Bloody Friday and La Mon atrocities, carried out by the IRA, and the appalling loyalist bomb attacks on Dublin in 1974.
At the very moment the programme went on air, up to 100 families were being evacuated from their homes in north Belfast.
They all live close to York Road police station, where dissident republicans had abandoned a large car bomb.
The device was eventually made safe by the British army, but detectives said it could easily have turned into a massive firebomb.
Those who were moved out of their homes included a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair and a number of young children.
They could all have been killed if the device had detonated in the way intended by the dissident republicans.
It might well have been another Dublin bomb, another Bloody Friday or another La Mon, just as the RTE documentary described so vividly.
Perhaps members of the Continuity IRA simply avoid watching television programmes of this nature.
It is conceivable that they even consider that their twisted ambitions vindicate risking further carnage and bloodshed.
However, they can rest assured that the vast majority of ordinary Irish citizens, north and south, are very well aware of what happens when a bomb explodes.
Decent people know that no cause on earth can justify the loss of a single human life.
They will ensure that evil campaigns from the likes of the Continuity IRA will end in failure.
