Rte News Interview With Terry Delany Sept 24th 2009

Robert Delany: The campaign for justice continues
BY ELLA O’DWYER

ROBERT DELANY, a 28-year-old postman who was shot in Tallaght on 24 October last year, remains in what’s called a “vegetative state” in Tallaght Hospital. Robert was shot in the face at 6.30am one morning as he looked out the window of his apartment at Russell Rise, off Fortunestown Way, to see who was pressing the doorbell. It is believed that the shooting happened as an outcome of an incident in the summer of last year when Robert intervened to rescue someone...

'Bob was a lovely shy, little boy' Noleen Delany never wants her only son Robert to be alone in hospital, and hates leaving him for even a moment. Sitting by his hospital bed, stroking his hand, she wonders how anyone could live with what they have done to her son and his family. "Surely whoever did this has a mother, and they know what it is like to have a son. Surely they can see how this has affected us all, not just Robert, but Mags, his children, his family," she says. Noleen spends much of her time thinking about her her days minding Robert...

Caring for Robert Delany is now a daily routine that has locked his family into a life of separation from each other. His partner Mags explained how the alarm ringing in the morning brings her back to cold and dark reality with a bang. "Sometimes I have dreams about Robert. I had one recently where he sat up in the bed and when I hugged him he responded and gave me a kiss, but then you wake up and it's back to this," said Mags. She pats Robert's knee, bites her lip, and looks at the father of their two girls lying unresponding in his special...

Gun victim's family take justice campaign online. Their Website aims to gather data on attacker who left father of two brain dead, writes Mark Hilliard THE family of a man who was shot in the face as he leaned outside his bedroom window last year will launch a website next week in a desperate bid to gather evidence on his attacker. Robert Delaney (28), a father of two, was left almost completely brain dead after the shooting in October last year. Today, he remains in a vegetative state in Tallaght Hospital while his family fights to bring his...

The other victim's of gun crime: Mags Purtill tells the story of the struggles she now faces after her partner Robert Delaney was shot in the face. Published Date: 07 April 2009 THE discovery of two hand-guns in a green area in Tymon Park on Thursday highlights the growing concern that nobody is safe from gun crime, and one mother's story of life after the shooting of her partner at their home in Russell Square emphasises the devastating damage that these weapons can have on innocent families. A father of two, Robert Delaney (27) was shot in...

Son of former IRA man is prime suspect in shooting By Tom Brady Monday February 16 2009 THE son of a former senior figure in the Provisional IRA's so-called Dublin brigade is a prime suspect for a shooting which has left a young postman critically ill in hospital. Victim Robert Delany remains in a vegetative state in hospital after a murder attempt at his duplex home in Tallaght last October. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams last night condemned the shooting as thuggery and branded those responsible as criminals. He told the...

LAST Saturday Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and South Dublin County Councillor Seán Crowe met with Terry Delany whose son Robert was brutally shot at his home in Tallaght on 24 October where he lived with his partner and two young children. Postman Robert Delany was shot at 6.30am as he looked out the window of his apartment at Russell Rise, off Fortunestown Way to see who was buzzing on his door. Robert (27) remains critically ill in a Dublin hospital following the attack. In recent weeks a number of stories have appeared in the media alleging...

FORMER Labour Party leader, Pat Rabbitte, today described as "horrific" the Dublin shooting of the son of a close friend. Robert 'Bobby' Delaney (27) was shot in the face as he looked out from a third-storey apartment early on Wednesday morning. Gardai have still not established a motive for the shooting, which has left Mr Delaney in a critical condition in hospital. Speaking about the crime, Deputy Rabbitte told the Herald that the incident was "unbelievable" and that the Delaney family were well liked. "I knew him when he was a little...

A YOUNG man was in a critical condition in hospital last night after he was hit in the face with a shotgun blast. Last night, gardai were trying to establish if the 27-year-old victim, Robert Delaney, had been singled out for attack because he had attempted to stop a fight in a pub in Tallaght in south Dublin two weeks ago. Gardai are carrying out forensic tests on a stolen Honda Integra car, which they think may have been used by the gunman in his getaway. Officers said Mr Delaney was not known to them, and that he came from a highly respectable...