Every report matters. Repeated drone flights over homes should not be treated as normal simply because they are brief, intermittent or commercially convenient.
If flights are affecting your home, garden, work, sleep, children, pets, outdoor time or peace of mind, record it and report it.
Speaking on the Neil Prendeville Show on RedFM (25 May 2026), Manna founder Bobby Healy claimed there are “only two complaints a week” from Blanchardstown, and that “Cork loves it.”
The clearest way to test that publicly is to put your experience on the record — through Manna’s own complaints channel — and to share copies with the campaign so we can show the real volume. Every email is one more data point on the public record.
A complaint also formally requests exclusion of your home from drone routes. Residents should not have to ask individually — residential exclusion should be the default.
Residents should not have to ask individually for their homes to be avoided. Residential exclusion should be the default.
Until that happens, you can request that your home and immediate area are excluded from drone delivery routes. Use this template to make the request clearly and put it on the record.
Send to community@manna.aero. This is Manna’s official community contact address.
Send the complaint to Manna on its own first. Residents have reported that complaints copying campaign addresses may not be logged cleanly. To avoid any dispute, send to the operator only first, then forward separately to the campaign.
Ask explicitly for your home and Eircode area to be excluded from drone delivery routes. State that you do not consent to commercial drone overflight of your home.
Ask Manna to log each email as a separate, formal complaint and to confirm receipt. This helps ensure each one is recorded individually.
After you’ve sent it, forward your complaint — and any reply — as a separate email to droneactioncork@gmail.com. Forwarding afterwards still lets the campaign build the record.
One email per incident. If they fly over again next week, that is another complaint. Repeated incidents give a fuller picture of the ongoing impact.
Use this template to make the impact clear. Personal details matter: explain what happened, when it happened, where you were, and how it affected ordinary use of your home or garden. A few honest sentences in your own voice are far better than a verbatim copy.
Tip: The “Open in email” button pre-fills the To and subject — you’ll just need to paste the template body and personalise. Send it to Manna only first. Once it’s sent, forward a copy to droneactioncork@gmail.com so it counts toward the record.
If they reply, save it. If they don’t, that itself is data. Either way, forward the reply (or a note that none came) to the campaign email.
If Manna confirms an exclusion, watch your sky. If drones still fly over, that is a breach of their own commitment — log it, complain again, share it.
Single complaints are easy to dismiss. A street, an estate, or an Eircode area complaining together is not.
Add your name. Write to your TDs. If a Manna hub is being applied for in your area, file a planning objection.
All actionsDrone Action Cork is currently the coordinating point for evidence-gathering — that’s why the forwarding address is a Cork email. But this is a national campaign and a national governance issue. Whether you’re in Dublin 15, Cork, or any other community Manna is flying over, your forwarded complaints all feed the same evidence base.
Send your report directly to the operator first, then forward it to the campaign if you want it included in the resident record. You can also join the Ireland-wide WhatsApp broadcast group for updates.
In Cork, contact Drone Action Cork; in Dublin 15, contact D15 Action.