Well-known figures in Irish domestic soccer arrested over €3m heroin haul

Two well-known figures in Irish domestic soccer have been arrested over the discovery of a consignment of heroin valued at €3 million.

Mr Delaney, who was working as a postman at the time he was targeted over intervening in a row outside a pub, has been in a permanent vegetative state in hospital since the shooting almost 12 years ago.Organised Crime BureauGardaí believe the drugs had recently entered the country and the haul was monitored, leading to the arrest of the two suspects - 40s and 30s - on Wednesaday in the Dublin 15 area.Garda station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act.

Over a period of months after the incident outside the Dublin pub in 2008 Mr Delaney was followed and intimidated and in October 2008, was shot at his home in Tallaght. When a caller rang the bell to his apartment Mr Delaney looked over the balcony to see who was calling and was met with a shotgun blast to the face.

The gunman who shot him, Daniel Gaynor from Dublin, carried out shootings for money. Gardaí believe he was paid €10,000 to shoot Robert Delaney.

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