Tag Archives: Northern Ireland

The Facebook campaign to shame Iris Robinson by sending Simon & Garfunkel’s hit to #1 saw early success today, when the track leapt to #23 on Amazon’s top downloads chart. Banners promoting the effort were hung across from the Northern Ireland Assembly building yesterday. Paul Simon should be pleased, he hasn’t seen the inside of the UK Top 40 in …

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson is stepping down for six weeks, the maximum time allowed, while he sorts out the sexual and financial scandal shrouding he and his wife. Last night Iris Robinson was admitted to a Belfast hospital for “acute psychiatric care.” Mr Robinson has designated Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster to take charge in the interim. Earlier, the …

Can it possibly get any sleazier? Iris Robinson, the UK’s most infamous homophobe, not only fucked 19 year-old Kirk McCambley, she fucked his father too! The scandal now threatens to bring down Robinson’s husband Peter, the First Minister of Northern Ireland, and the entire coalition government he heads. The sex scandal that has transfixed Northern Ireland in recent days has …

Iris Robinson, the “Anita Bryant of the UK” who was mocked by floats of look-a-like drag queens during last year’s Belfast Pride parade, not only was cheating on her husband at the same time she was on national radio called gays “abominations,” she was committing that adultery with a young man said to be under 21 at the time. That …

Northern Ireland member of Parliament Iris Robinson, June 2008: “I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals trying to turn away from what they are engaged in. And I have met people who have turned around to become heterosexual. I do not need to …

Relevant to my earlier post today about hate speech laws in the UK, today Northern Ireland member of Parliament Iris Robinson escaped charges for calling homosexuality an abomination. The case has festered for nearly a year as LGBT groups lobbied for Robinson to be charged. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in Northern Ireland confirmed today it was not proceeding with …