Manna Air Delivery is building a commercial delivery network over our homes and communities in Cork and Dublin. The drones are loud, low and intrusive, and residents are being denied any meaningful right to object.

If an industrial activity with repetitive noise was proposed beside your home, there would be a planning process to follow, including an environmental impact assessment, and clear processes to raise objections. Residents are being told to accept a loud commercial operation flying low over their homes without due process.

Residents in Dublin 15 have described drones overhead every 10 minutes, or 15 times an hour at busy periods, and have described the sound as “phenomenal” and "intolerable" when hovering. In Cork, more than 200 submissions/complaints were reported at the start of the rollout. A trial rollout is already underway — without clear safeguards, it will expand across the city.

Manna’s public material states their drones measure normal street noise (59 dB in flight), and are “gone in under 10 seconds”.  This does not reflect the realty, which is noise pollution for people on the ground. Repeated loud noise overhead, intrusion into gardens and outdoor space, many times per hour, day after day. There are direct implications for children, families, wildlife and the wider community.

Manna Drones state their drones fly at a constant height of 55 to 65 metres. Written confirmation from CEO Bobby Healy states "our drones operate at a fixed altitude above mean sea level on any given route, not relative to the ground level beneath each property". Therefore drones can pass significantly lower over elevated properties and areas.

People have the right to enjoy their homes and community spaces without repetitive noise intrusions. Public health bodies have linked chronic noise exposure with sleep disturbance and impacts on children’s concentration and learning. Dáil debates and local campaigns have also raised concerns about the impact to autism-friendly areas, nesting birds and bats, and the wider character of residential communities.

In July 2025, Manna CEO Bobby Healy told the Oireachtas that residents can provide their Eircodes to exclude them from the flightpath. Manna would “block the house straight away”, and that block would remain permanent. We have written correspondence with Manna’s CEO and community-engagement team confirming they will not honour this statement. The so-called opt-out is false, and we have no independent enforcement, or right to appeal.

Residents are not opposing innovation. We are resisting the unchecked rollout of an industrial scale drone-delivery system over our homes and communities without enforceable exclusion rights, independent public monitoring of noise and frequency, and without a proper framework which considers residents and communities.

We call for:

• A right for residents to exclude commercial drone overflight from their homes and gardens.
• Independent monitoring of drone noise, route density, and cumulative exposure in residential areas.
• A pause on further expansion until enforceable safeguards are in place.
• Clear planning and environmental rules for Manna hubs, and high-frequency residential drone corridors.
• Protection for children, schools, parks, wildlife zones, and sensitive residential areas (churches, funeral parlours etc).

Take action:
If this continues without safeguards, it will be expanded across Cork, Dublin and many other cities across Ireland. Sign this petition to ensure residents and communities have a say.