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The Right Honorable Peter Robinson MP MLA (born 29 December 1948) is Northern Irish politician. A Member of Parliament for the Democratic Unionist Party since 1979, he is currently leader of that party and First Minister of Northern Ireland. His wife, [[Iris Robinson]], also a British MP, recently generated outrage by suggesting that homosexuals should receive counselling to curb their inclinations. | The Right Honorable Peter Robinson MP MLA (born 29 December 1948) is Northern Irish politician. A Member of Parliament for the Democratic Unionist Party since 1979, he is currently leader of that party and First Minister of Northern Ireland. His wife, [[Iris Robinson]], also a British MP, recently generated outrage by suggesting that homosexuals should receive counselling to curb their inclinations. | ||
| − | Robinson has courted controversey on numerous other occasions, including speaking on behalf of a terrorist organisation that was importing arms from outside [[Northern Ireland]], and invading the gardai station in the town of Clontribert in the Republic of Ireland with 500 supporters who assaulted 2 gardai before staging a military march down the town's main street. | + | Robinson has courted controversey on numerous other occasions, including speaking on behalf of a terrorist organisation that was importing arms from outside [[Northern Ireland]], and invading the gardai station in the town of Clontribert in the Republic of Ireland with 500 supporters who assaulted 2 gardai before staging a military march down the town's main street. <ref>http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch86.htm#Aug</ref> |
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The Right Honorable Peter Robinson MP MLA (born 29 December 1948) is Northern Irish politician. A Member of Parliament for the Democratic Unionist Party since 1979, he is currently leader of that party and First Minister of Northern Ireland. His wife, Iris Robinson, also a British MP, recently generated outrage by suggesting that homosexuals should receive counselling to curb their inclinations.
Robinson has courted controversey on numerous other occasions, including speaking on behalf of a terrorist organisation that was importing arms from outside Northern Ireland, and invading the gardai station in the town of Clontribert in the Republic of Ireland with 500 supporters who assaulted 2 gardai before staging a military march down the town's main street. [1]