Sexagenarian was just in it for the sex

The dustup around Irish Christianist Iris Robinson gets seedier by the day, especially now that she has alleged  her affair with a 19 year-old was purely fleshly:

The political crisis surrounding Northern Ireland’s First Minister deepened last night when it was claimed that the man with whom his 60-year-old wife had an extra-marital affair was 19.

Peter Robinson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was trying to show that it was business as usual yesterday as he returned to work after revealing on Wednesday that his wife, Iris, the MP and MLA for Strangford, had tried to kill herself after admitting the affair to him last March.

Instead, their decision to go public only fuelled the rumour mill before the broadcast last night of a BBC Northern Ireland documentary, which alleged financial impropriety on the part of Mrs Robinson. It named Kirk McCambley, now 21 and the proprietor of a café in South Belfast, as Mrs Robinson’s lover.

The programme alleged that Mrs Robinson set up her teenage lover in a business, raising £50,0000 for him from donations from two property developers. The lease for The Lock Keeper’s Inn was granted to Mr McCambley by Castlereagh Borough Council. Mrs Robinson was at the council meeting in her capacity as alderman when the lease was approved.

The programme claimed that when she gave the £50,000 to Mr McCambley in the form of two cheques she demanded from him a “cut” of £5,000 in cash. Mr McCambley spent the rest of the money on catering equipment.

When their relationship soured she allegedly demanded the money back, half of it being claimed to have gone via a church that Mr and Mrs Robinson attended.

In her statement on Wednesday, Mrs Robinson admitted: “Over a year and a half ago I was involved in a relationship. It began completely innocently when I gave support to someone following a family death. I encouraged friends to assist him by providing financial support for a business venture.

“Regrettably, the relationship later developed into a brief affair. It had no emotional or lasting meaning, but my actions have devastated my life and the lives of those around me.”