Posted on 01/08/2010 9:04:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Lock Keeper's Inn outside Belfast is an attractive but otherwise unremarkable café. Serving up the usual Northern Irish fare of sausage rolls and stew, it's a place to stop for a quiet coffee after walking along the nearby riverbank. A world away, it would seem, from the bitter feuds of Northern Irish politics. But following a series of remarkable revelations this week, the inn is at the center of a scandal that could threaten the career of Northern Ireland's top politician.
On Thursday, a BBC television program called Spotlight issued a report accusing First Minister Peter Robinson's wife Iris of breaking the law by failing to disclose her financial interest in a 2008 business deal that helped launch the café. The report alleged that Iris Robinson — then aged 59 and, like her husband, a well-known politician in Northern Ireland — had obtained $80,000 from two property developers for a 19-year-old man, Kirk McCambley, with whom she had been having an affair. According to the report, the teenager allegedly used most of the money to set up the café but saved $8,000 to give back to his lover, the appropriately named Mrs. Robinson.
The revelation followed a series of other disclosures about the Robinsons' private lives over the past couple of weeks. On Dec. 28, Iris Robinson, who currently serves in both the British Parliament and Northern Ireland assembly, announced she would be ending her 20-year political career, saying she had been suffering from "serious bouts of depression." Then, on Jan. 6, a handful of television journalists were invited to meet Peter Robinson at his home outside Belfast. Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Northern Ireland's largest political party, is known for his clinical, dispassionate public image.
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Using an old Irish term, I'd have a go at her too,
:)
I notice the lusty wench is wearing a big gold cross on her neck. I wonder if she takes it off when she cuckolds her husband.
Ireland ping!
Tacky, tacky, tacky ...
Cheers!
Done! Welcome, on behalf of Irish_Thatcherite. I’ll have to email the dear boy and see what he thinks about this ;-).
It's all I can do to keep one man happy. Two would be exhausting!
Oh, I agree! If I were going to betray my husband, it would be with a library ;-), or running away to Anguilla with the baby. Another man - no wai!
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