The Marina Market, Cork — where the drone delivery hub operates over the surrounding residential communities.
Cork communities are not asking for a better communications plan. They are asking for routine food-delivery drone flights over residential areas to stop.
Residents have reported repeated overflights, noise, visibility, privacy concerns and uncertainty about who is accountable when a commercial drone service is routed over their homes.
This should not be normalised. Homes, gardens, schools and green spaces should not become the operating corridor for a convenience delivery business.
The Marina Market, Cork — where the drone delivery hub operates over the surrounding residential communities.
Last updated: June 2026
Drone Action Cork represents Cork communities affected by routine food-delivery drone flights. Our Skies Our Say presents the wider countrywide perspective on the same problem.
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After more than 650 public submissions, the IAA rolled back the temporary measures introduced to facilitate Manna — but proposed a “long-term safety zone” over Cork city in their place. This is the same regulator designating zones ahead of the State’s promised transparent process. Cork voices on what comes next still matter.
Cork City Council has opened a planning enforcement file in relation to the drone delivery operation based at Centre Park Road and issued a warning letter to the operator. The matter concerns the planning status of the landing base, including land-use issues and site works connected with the drone delivery hub. The enforcement file relates to the landing area on the ground, not to drone operations once airborne. Source: Irish Independent.
A public meeting on Cork’s southside drew more than 200 residents, with strong concerns about noise and privacy, and criticism of the lack of legislation. Residents in the Blackrock test zone have been organising ever since.
The IAA opened an investigation into noise from delivery drones operating in Cork city, following complaints from residents under the flight paths.
Drone Action Cork has driven much of the momentum — the public meeting, the submissions, the media coverage. They are also currently coordinating evidence-gathering for the wider campaign. Lend an hour, or just your experience.
Connect with residents across Ballincollig, Blackrock and the Cork southside.
Email: droneactioncork@gmail.com
Email Manna directly, request exclusion of your home from routes, then forward a copy to the campaign. Each one is a data point that counts.
Cork TDs and councillors need to hear from constituents. We have a letter you can personalise in minutes.
Cork should not become the model for normalising routine drone food delivery over residential communities.
The question is not how to make residents more comfortable with it.
The question is why a commercial food-delivery service is being allowed to place repeated flights over homes at all.
The evidence, the safeguards gap and the templates are shared across the whole campaign — Cork and Dublin are making the same case together.