Delaney makes headlines from behind bars

IT is a measure of Joseph Delaney’s reputation as a particularly notorious class of hardened criminal that even his own son was more than prepared to give evidence against his father in court.

But the 57-year-old gangster, nicknamed 'Cotton-Eye', is no criminal of the ordinary, decent variety.

Almost four years after he received a life sentence for committing one of the most brutal gangland murders in recent history, Delaney is again making headlines.