One Big Holiday: Here's to you Mrs. Robinson...

Ha Ha Ha... sooo happyyyy... NOT.

Iris Robinson, pictured above, is what we call a cougar (cougar: Noun. A 35+ year old female who is on the "hunt" for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities) waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path. definition courtesy of urbandictionary.com example: demi moore and susan sarandon). Iris Robinson is a member of Parliament of the UK in Northern Ireland, and is pictured here with her hubby, Peter Robinson, the First Minister (Prime Minister) of Northern Ireland (which is a different country than the Republic of Ireland which is part of the UK. The Republic is what we simply refer to as Ireland).

It was our first day of class yesterday at Dublin Business School. 1st class: Politics. 1st teacher: Seamus (not Seemus, SHAYMUS). 1st lesson: Robinson scandal. In the last week 60 year old Mrs. Robinson has admitted to having an affair with a 19 year old Kirk McCambley and for aiding this wee-lad entrepreneur with a 50,000 pound loan for his business. Obviously we erupt in laughter (which may or may not been acceptable... but when in Ireland, when in doubt LAUGH), immediately thinking of a story of a familiar cougar coincidentally named Mrs. Robinson... As for politics, Mrs. Robinson is expelled from her party (the democratic union does NOT take any of that crap) and Mr. Robinson is on a 6 week temporary leave from his First Minister position with Arlene Foster stepping in (her glorious 5 minutes of fame... at least someone's happy here).

"Kirk McCambley told the MP wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister that the illness (forgot to say.. he claims to have a disease... probably rabies...) was threatening his life and affecting his sexual performance after she began to bombard him with text messages and love letters, said the Irish Independent newspaper.

She had helped the young businessman, who is 40 years her junior, obtain £50,000 in loans that was not declared to Parliamentary authorities." - Irish News

What a story to walk in on on the first day of school. I felt like I was in a celeb gossip class... but Seamus was loving it (probably just because it was Northern Ireland and not his home country... they are all so fascinated with international juicy gossip because as a country about the size of West Virginia, they don't have enough scandals to keep themselves busy so they laugh at international nonsense and watch crappy American "tellie"). The rest of the day was just your average history and politics lessons...

Soooo were you thinking that the Iris, Kirk and Peter situation sounded a little familiar... ?