"Don't know if The Irish Times......"
Should read 'Sunday Times' - of course.
The only reason Mrs Robinson enters into this discussion - apart from her vitriolic statements about homosexuality - is that she is/was a politician who has used her priveleged position to express her view on the subject in the most hate-filled rabble rousing terms - to reiterate:
"There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing children"
"I cannot think of anything more sickening than a child being abused. It is comparable to the act of homosexuality" only for it to be discovered that her own behaviour was less than perfect.
The lady is a bigot and a hypoctrit and held a position in society where neither can be said to be acceptible for national stability.
Jim Carroll