Whether you're in Dublin 15, Cork, or anywhere else Manna is flying — if commercial drones are over your home, putting your experience on the record helps build a clear, factual picture.
Already added your name? Good — that's the step everyone can take. Logging your experience is the second, and it's the one that builds an evidence base on the public record. Add your name first if you haven't, then come back and use the template below.
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 a geoblock over your Eircode. Each one Manna refuses or ignores adds to the case for clearer statutory protection.
Send to community@manna.aero. This is Manna's official community contact address.
Send the complaint to Manna on its own — don't CC anyone else. Manna has been filtering out emails that copy a campaign address, so a clean, direct email is most likely to be logged.
Ask explicitly for a geoblock over your Eircode. 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 avoids Manna's CC filtering and still lets the campaign build the record. Historic complaints are welcome too.
One email per incident. If they fly over again next week, that's another complaint. Manna's "two a week" is only accurate if each household complains just once; recording repeat incidents gives a fuller picture.
Edit the bracketed sections. A few honest sentences in your own voice are far better than a verbatim copy — Manna's own logs will show patterns, and a personal account is harder to dismiss.
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. 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 a geoblock, watch your sky. If drones still fly over, that's 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.