Robert Delaney hasn't spoken to anyone in 17 years.

He was left with catastrophic brain damage.

After he was gunned down by a hitman, hired to kill him,

on the orders of a psycho-distant Republican,

furious he'd broken up a pub fight.

He'll never do more than lie in his bed or sit in his chair, utterly reliant on the kindness of others

for his every basic need.

He's neither living nor dead.

And this is his story.

She never heard his voice.

And that's what she cries about.

I don't know what my daddy sounds like.

From the producers of the Kinnahans and the Stardust tragedy,

This is Robert, is an Irish son podcast.

On Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

On the evening of February the 27th, 2009, 24-year-old Shane Travers stood outside Clontarf Garda Station.

He was shaking and distressed.

He'd just been through the unimaginable.

A nightmare 24 hours from start to finish.

He took a breath and tried to pull himself together

as he walked inside the station where his dad Jesse worked.

Yeah. as he walked inside the station where his dad Jesse worked. Travers had been violently forced to hand over 7 million euro in cash to a Dublin criminal gang.

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