I don't find it disgusting that a 60 year old female slept with a 19 year old. I find it unusual. It's more likely the other way around. But then I'm always been attracted to older males, Sean Conery, oh yes, and only when he was over 40. Maybe things change when one gets older and when I'm 50 I'll be attracted to teenage males? Especially if it's just a sex thing.
Is there any reason this story has come out at the same time as the Gerry Adams story?
She got the money so easily it begs the question did she get money before and did it influence her in the planning votes.
I don't believe she is ill, but is seeking to avoid speaking to the media and asking the very pertinent questions that they want to put to her.
But it must be hard to live in a puritanical one dimensional world if one is vivacious and lively and open to other experiences particularly if one's husband is Cromwellian in his views. I imagine that would cause any women to have a crisis (various people have told me she's mad or going through the memopause, my husband and others tell me she is very attractive). I don't profess to knowing their way of living and viewing the world, but if one lives by rigid mores, it must if one strays be all the more difficult to deal with mentally.
This doesn't take away from the fact that she procured money, she voted for certain planning matters, she voted for the young man to get the lease, she demanded a kickback of 5K and then demanded (not asked) for the money back when he refused her advances (so she clearly saw it as sex for money it would seem) and for this as a public representative she must answer for. It is quite extraordinary how she asked for the kickback, when she and her husband bring in circa 500K annually. How easy would it have been for them to pay back the 50k to the developers, which would have been the right thing to do.
The only real wrong Peter Robinson has done is that when she tried to commit suicide, if that is the case, that he went to work. Now there is clearly something wrong with a husband in that circumstance. I wouldn't like to live under the yoke of his forgiveness either, even if she did wrong.
For those who are saying we are commenting on this because of their religion, you certainly can't say that about me. I find the Catholic Church and it's actions in Ireland far more vile than anything Iris Robinson has ever done. In fact she'd be a saint in comparison.