Former Strangford MLA and MP Iris Robinson is to receive damages from the Sunday Worldnewspaper for its publication of photographs taken while she received mental health treatment in London.
Mrs Robinson, wife of Northern First Minister Peter Robinson, accepted an undisclosed sum and legal costs to settle her breach of privacy case against the newspaper, her lawyer revealed yesterday.
She quit politics in December 2009 after admitting she was battling depression and the revelation of an affair with Kirk McCambley, who was aged 19 at the time. She had issued a writ for breach of confidence, misuse of private information, harassment and breach of her rights after the Sunday Worldpublished articles and photos of her during her treatment.
