Family of shooting victim want crime novel by former IRA man withdrawn

THE work colleagues and the family of a man left severely brain damaged by a shooting two years ago yesterday called for the withdrawal from sale of a book by a person recently arrested in relation to the incident.

Robert Delaney, 29, was blasted in the face with a shotgun by a gunman who called at his house in the Tallaght area of Dublin in October 2008.

A father of two girls, aged eight and three, the young postman was shot when he looked out the front door.