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Following the BBC Spotlight Programme regarding Iris
Robinson and the endless analysis of the story on
television news and radio, it is hard to imagine what
Simply Belfast can bring to the mix and hence the delay
in composing this editorial.
For us, this news story is a tragedy which is
littered with victims not least of which is Iris
Robinson. What makes this story so saddening was that it
started with the most purest of motives.
For Iris Robinson a friend of the late Billy
McCambley a Ballyhackamore based butcher, had promised
to look out for his only son once he was gone, following
a terminal illness. Iris remained true to her word and
in the programme Kirk McCambley said:
'she looked out for me and made sure I was OK'
'She was there..to help'
Following the death of his dad, Iris, who was a busy
politician, wife and mother made time to help. As you
would expect different people around Northern Ireland
view this story differently, but it is concerning that
many people interviewed regarding this story have become
unrestrained in their language, lacking compassion,
lacking mercy, lacking understanding, lets hope their
own sin doesn't fall under the media spotlight any time
soon.
Iris Robinson does not need this site to tell her
what she has done wrong or the cost involved for she is
painfully aware of it, but for a country now looking at
another's sin and quick in their judgment of it, Iris's
pastor James McConnell declared his view when he said:
'If the Lord should mark iniquity who would stand?'
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