In June 2008, Iris Robinson made controversial comments on the Stephen Nolan breakfast show on Radio Ulster, saying that " 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 ".

In October 2008, Peter Robinson MP, the First Minister of Northern Ireland backed his wife's claims stating " It wasn't Iris Robinson who determined that homosexuality was an abomination, it was The Almighty.

Iris Robinson ( née Collins ; born 6 September 1949 ) is a former Northern Ireland Unionist politician.

In January 2010, following a scandal involving his wife Iris Robinson, Robinson temporarily stood down from his position as First Minister and selected Arlene Foster to fulfill the role, under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 2006.

Following an investigation, which cleared Robinson of allegations made by the BBC in relation to the Iris Robinson scandal, he resumed his duties as First Minister and subsequently completed the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Stormont Executive on 5 February 2010.

In the general election on 7 June 2001, Robinson ’ s wife, Iris, joined him in Parliament as MP for Strangford.

On 11 January 2010 Robinson announced that he was stepping down from the position of First Minister for a period of six weeks to clear his name over his financial dealings in the midst of the Iris Robinson scandal.

The MPs who signed this motion were: Gregory Campbell ; Iris and Peter Robinson ; Dr. William McCrea ; Jeffrey Donaldson ; David Simpson ; Nigel Dodds and Sammy Wilson.

The seat was won by Iris Robinson for the Democratic Unionist Party and the subsequent 2003 assembly election saw the DUP increase their vote further.

The Member of Parliament between the 2001 general election and her resignation in January 2010 was Iris Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party.

This was the year before Iris Robinson, wife of First Minister, Peter Robinson made her thoughts on the issue.

* Following a number of high-profile comments made by Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) Iris Robinson, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a finding that an advertisement placed by the Kirk Session of the Sandown Free Presbyterian Church breached advertising codes.

* Peter and Iris Robinson, politicians

* 2011-In November 2011, Iris Robinson received " substantial damages " for the publication of photos taken while she was undergoing treatment for depression after an attempted suicide.

Iris becomes involved with Jim, but the scandal surrounding Terry Andrews forces him to leave San Francisco for New York.

Fearing that the scandal will harm his chances for election in the 1972 Senatorial election, Iris agrees to keep the rape a secret and pass off the baby as Spence's child.

Iris Tree was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists ' model, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair ( she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train ) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal.

The amateur comics magazine Iris ( 1990-1995 ) ( re ) published a number of DirkJan comics, some of which were refused for publication in SjoSji.

This was augmented on 24 June 1943 by a long cable between Cemaes Bay in Anglesea and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris.

Sport drags Iris from the cab and throws Travis a crumpled twenty-dollar bill, which continually reminds him of her.

" There has been much discussion about the ending, in which we see newspaper clippings about Travis's ' heroism ' of saving Iris, and then Betsy gets into his cab and seems to give him admiration instead of her earlier disgust.

Iris texture is a phenotypical feature which develops during gestation and remains unchanged after birth.

This was followed by the romantic drama Stanley & Iris ( 1990 ), which was her final film for 15 years.

Neurons ( 40 × 40 square grid ) are trained for 250 iterations with a learning rate of 0. 1 using the normalized Iris flower data set which has four-dimensional data vectors.

Bomont Building, which was completed in 1998, and houses the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, the Iris Murdoch building, opened in 2002 for The Dementia Services Development Centre, and the Colin Bell Building, completed in 2003 for the School of Applied Social Science.

Sophocles wrote an Inachos, probably a satyr play, which survives only in some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhyncus and Tebtunis, Egypt ; in it Inachos is reduced from magnificence to misery through the unrequited love of Zeus for his daughter Io ; Hermes wears the cap of darkness, rendering him invisible, but plays the aulos, to the mystification of the satyrs ; Argos and Iris, as a messenger of Hera both appear, a " stranger " turns Io into a heifer at the touch of a hand, and at the end, apparently, the satyrs are freed from their bondage, to become shepherds of Inachos.

When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

Iris is frequently mentioned as a divine messenger in the Iliad which is attributed to Homer, but does not appear in his Odyssey, where Hermes fills that role.

In Euripides ' play Heracles, Iris appears alongside Lyssa, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.

Iris color is a highly complex phenomenon consisting of the combined effects of texture, pigmentation, fibrous tissue and blood vessels within the iris stroma, which together make up an individual's epigenetic constitution in this context.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

It is ironic that the Royal Iris finds herself close to the waters from which another Royal Daffodil once sailed.

The front-angled bridge windows on the Royal Iris and the Snowdrop have been subject to much criticism, as they are contradictory to the classic ferry design, especially that on Snowdrop, which is extremely square and box like.

Under the sponsorship of the British writer Iris Origo, his parents sent him to Britain in 1939 under the Kindertransport scheme, which brought almost 10, 000 mainly Jewish children to Britain to escape from Nazi persecution.

* 1961: Robert Rauschenberg sent a telegram to the Galerie Iris Clert which said: ' This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

Old peat workings and rhynes have a wetland community which includes Bulrush ( Typha latifolia ), Yellow Flag Iris ( pseudacorus ), Cyperus-like Sedge ( Carex pseudocyperus ) and Lesser Bur-reed ( Sparganium natans ).

During the First World War the steamers Iris and Daffodil were taken out of service from Wallasey to be used as troop ships in the naval raid on Zeebrugge in Belgium.

The " Royal " prefix was granted to the ferries Iris and Daffodil for their service during the First World War where they were instrumental at the Mole in Zeebrugge.

Its members included: Lady Diana Manners, the most famous beauty in England ; Duff Cooper who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat ; Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister and a famed barrister ; Maurice Baring ; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of Barings Bank and war poet ; Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree ; Edward Horner and Sir Denis Anson.

The appearance of polyploidy is important in Northern Hemisphere genera, especially Iris and Crocus, but has an unusually low frequency in Africa, the center of diversity for the family.

* Iris ( inc. Belamcanda ), includes 260 species distributed from temperate Northern Hemisphere to Philippines.

At the same time as Iris Oifigiúil took over the functions of The Dublin Gazette in the Irish Free State, The Belfast Gazette was established for the same purpose in the newly created Northern Ireland.

glabra ), Dwarf Lake Iris ( iris lacustris ), Northern Holly Fern ( polypodium lonchitis )