Mrs Robinson, If You Don't Mind Me Saying So...

'...this conversation is getting a little strange.'

Many of you might be familiar with the famous line taken out of The Graduate, a naughty 60's movie about a college graduate (Dustin Hoffman) who is seduced by the older, married Mrs Robinson. Or it could be the plot for the news story about Iris Robinson - wife of Northern Ireland's First Prime Minister Peter Robinson and her affair with a 19 year-old lover? She 58 by the way. So I guess the first response is shock. No one can believe that the former first Lady could dabble in tramp with a man almost 40 years her junior. Really? I mean, Bill Clinton can lie about it in court but Mrs Robinson gets some and it's enough to turn a country upside down.

Iris Robinson, who first came into criticism for her dislike of homosexuals, is also suspected to be involved with securing funds illegally for her beau to open up his own business. A trendy cafe called Lock Keepers Inn. Is it love? Who knows but for all intensive purposes, Iris...you go girl. All things considered, it doesn't look like its going to end well. The former Prime Minister's job now hangs in the balance while allegations fly that he knew about the funds and his wife's dealings with Kirk McCambley.

Mrs Robinson is currently being treated for acute depression in an undisclosed medical facility. She's begging her husband and the country for their forgiveness and acknowledging that was she did was wrong. "I did not sleep with that there man?" isn't the tune Mrs R is singing. Her condition was reported as being so severe that she attempted suicide.

The scandal hasn't done much to unite the Catholic-Protestant battle that has been going on for decades in Northern Ireland. Apparently, divisions are widening after the story made the news. Tensions are running high as a police officer was badly injured after an attack by IRA dissidents.

There's no telling how the story will end but we can certainly try to fill in the blanks edited from The (original) Graduate...

Kirk: Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
Mrs Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you?
Kirk: This is all terribly wrong.
Mrs Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?
Kirk: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.

I have a feeling it'll turn into a sequel...