Drone Action Cork, a group of residents from the Blackrock, Beaumont and Ballintemple areas that has campaigned against the company\u2019s Cork operations, said it welcomed the announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents have endured persistent noise, privacy and safety concerns, and we are relieved that respite may be at hand,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, we have received no official confirmation that Cork operations have ceased, and we urge residents to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe underlying failures \u2014 no national regulatory framework, inadequate planning protections, ignored community concerns \u2014 remain unresolved. We call on Government to act now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Manna Drone Delivery base at Marina Market, Centre Park Road, Cork City. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n
One local resident, who gave her name as Siobh\u00e1n, said she was \u201cdelighted and relieved for everyone in the community\u201d to hear of Manna\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cDrone delivery was never necessary in the first place \u2013 there are plenty other options of deliver available to people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that is so intrusive, into your personal life, into your personal space, into your head, actually.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very reluctant to trust the news. I\u2019m almost afraid to believe it, that\u2019s how bad the stress has been from those things flying over our homes.\u201d <\/p>\n
Labour councillor Peter Horgan said drone deliveries were not something his constituents wanted to see introduced without protections for their quality of life.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, we are still in a situation where we do not have clear governance and guidance on the operation of BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) drone operations in this country and in Cork,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been asking city officials and Government departments for action in terms of protecting people\u2019s quality of life, and we do need the Government\u2019s working group to engage with the various local authorities on what the various elements of drone operations will look like going forward.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Manna delivery drone in the red colour of Cork with the message Up Cork! printed on the side. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n
Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Mary Rose Desmond said the decision would be welcomed by many people in Ballintemple and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the writing had been on the wall from the planning decisions that had been made recently, but certainly from a city councillor\u2019s perspective, there seems to be a very grey area around BVLOS delivery drones, so I think this a welcome decision,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there may be scope in the future for medical or essential deliveries by drone, I don\u2019t think the regularity of fast-food deliveries warranted the impact they were having on people\u2019s lives.\u201d <\/p>\n
Seamus Doyle, chairperson of Drone Action D15, lives near the Coolmine drone delivery hub in Blanchardstown, Dublin, which was denied retention permission by Fingal County Council last month.<\/p>\n
Mr Doyle\u2019s group has campaigned against Manna\u2019s operations in the Dublin 15 area since July last year, and he said the company\u2019s decision to cease operations in Ireland would be welcomed locally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted with the decision, because it gives us back peace and quiet in our back gardens in particular, and when we walk in the parks in the area there is not that annoyance there anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor lots of members of our community, it has been a huge stress on them. The number of customers availing of the service has been very small, but the disturbance has been huge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the community of Dublin 15 who have been the ones to experience these problems, and we have worked hard giving voice to that community, so well done to local people for expressing themselves so well, to their local representatives and through the planning process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company, which announced a \u201cstrategic pause\u201d in Irish drone delivery operations on Friday, began a pilot scheme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4257,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}