We love gossip! Mr Robinson is getting help
The toyboy shame wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson is receiving acute psychiatric treatment, it has emerged.
Mr Robinson moved to quash media speculation about the whereabouts of his wife Iris.
Mrs Robinson is quitting as an MP after revelations about her affair with a lover (Kirk McCambley, seen in inset) young enough to be her grandson.
Mr Robinson said: "Iris is receiving acute psychiatric treatment from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust."
Pressure mounted on Mr Robinson after another Northern Ireland politician called on him to go.
Former First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly Lord Trimble claimed Mr Robinson had lost his authority following the exposure of his wife’s affair.
Kirk McCambley
But DUP Finance Minister Sammy Wilson insisted he still commanded support.
Resignation by Mr Robinson could trigger an early Assembly election, Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward warned.
Mrs Robinson is expected to step down within days.
Lord Trimble claimed: "To sit as leader in a party where the party summarily expels his wife without giving her any hint of due process or a soft landing is someone without authority in his own organisation."
He said he expected Mr Robinson to step down within the next few days.
But Mr Wilson said as he went to church in north Belfast, where Mr Robinson also attends: "As far as I am concerned he has got support, the stories about Iris don’t impugn him."
Mrs Robinson announced over Christmas that she was quitting politics because of severe depression.
But she and her husband have since been plunged into crisis after it emerged that she had secured £50,000 from two wealthy developers to help her 19-year-old lover Kirk McCambley set up a restaurant business in south Belfast.
