Twenty years later his Sinn Fein party took a dive in the south's general election; the people had swapped their all-Ireland dream for pride that the republic was now richer than the north.
But supermarkets need uniform quality, minimum large quantities and high standards of hygiene, which the average smallholder in a poor country is ill equipped to provide.
Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.
In medieval times, a lance couched under the rider's arm, unifying the force of rider and weapon, would throw its wielder backwards off the horse at impact.
Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today—embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.
The East also had a more deeply rooted unity in the Greek culture of the numerous Greek and Near Eastern cities that Rome had inherited from earlier Grecian empires.
David Cameron, the prime minister, and his chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, both stressed how lucky Britain was to have shunned the single currency.