THREE MEN HAVE been arrested over the shooting of 27-year-old Robert Delaney in October 2008.

Robert Delaney was severely brain-damaged after being he was shot at his home in Tallaght in Dublin.

He had been sleeping when he was awakened by a knock on the door, when he looked out of an upstairs window he was shot.

A man and two of his sons were arrested in Rathfarnam and Tallaght in today connection with the attack.

Gardaí have said that the man is 57 and was a member of the IRA.

It is believed that one of the man’s sons had been involved in a fight in a pub, and Delaney had been marked for an attack after he unwittingly intervened.

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Three men arrested over Robert Delaney shooting

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