Dublin residents are facing the same issue as Cork: commercial food-delivery drone operations being proposed or routed near residential communities.
Planning refusals and local objections show that communities are not simply asking for reassurance. They are saying that this model is not appropriate over homes.
The answer cannot be to move launch sites, alter routes, or transfer the burden from one neighbourhood to another. The standard should be clear: no routine food-delivery drone operations over residential communities.
Last updated: June 2026. Check appeal deadlines before acting — timelines change.
D15 Action represents Dublin 15 communities affected by routine food-delivery drone flights. Our Skies Our Say presents the wider countrywide perspective on the same problem.
Check the current status before submitting, as deadlines and appeal positions can change.
Where proposed sites would enable routine drone routes over residential areas, use the planning objection template.
If flights are affecting homes, gardens, schools, parks, pets, work, sleep, outdoor space or peace of mind, report it.
Share Dublin evidence or help locally with the community group.
Support the national call for routine food-delivery drone flights over residential communities to stop.
Join the Ireland-wide broadcast group for updates. The group is broadcast-only; admins can help direct questions to the relevant local contacts where possible.
Last updated: June 2026. Verify appeal deadlines independently — planning timelines change.
On 19 May 2026, Fingal County Council refused retention permission for Manna’s delivery hub at Coolmine Industrial Estate, finding it “results in serious noise pollution” and is “prejudicial to public health.” Residents should check the current planning or appeal status before submitting, as deadlines and appeal positions can change.
Manna sought to expand to new Dublin sites. A proposed Dundrum hub behind Holy Cross Church drew objections. If a hub is proposed near you, a planning objection through the planning process is the single most effective tool available.
Manna’s Blanchardstown Shopping Centre base was granted temporary three-year permission in August 2023, due to expire in 2026. Residents should watch for any renewal, replacement application, or related planning activity.
Fingal refused a Manna delivery hub at Clonsilla — one of three Fingal refusal/case references on the public record, alongside Junction 6 Castleknock and Coolmine.
An earlier Manna hub at Junction 6 Castleknock was refused planning retention and had to be dismantled. Clonsilla, Junction 6 Castleknock and Coolmine: the pattern is now on the public record.
Dublin has proven that planning objections work — three refusals say so. If Manna appeals or lodges for Tallaght or Dundrum, well-argued resident submissions carry real legal weight. We have a template that cites the noise findings and the safeguards gap; you personalise it.
D15 Action brings Dublin 15 residents’ concerns together — coordinating noise logs, flight counts, planning submissions and contact with local representatives. You do not need to be an expert. You just need to live under it.
Connect with neighbours across Blanchardstown, Coolmine, Castleknock and the wider D15 area.
Flight counts and noise logs from real homes are the evidence that planning authorities and the IAA respond to.
Dublin West and Dublin Fingal TDs need to hear from constituents. We have a letter you can personalise.
Dublin has already shown that communities can challenge this through planning, public record and local organisation.
The next step is to hold the line: this should not be displaced from one community to another.
It should stop over residential areas.
The evidence, the safeguards gap and the templates are shared across the whole campaign — Dublin and Cork are making the same case together.