Manna bids to retain Blanchardstown drone launch station it set up without planning permission

Founder and CEO of Manna Aero, Bobby Healy with one of his delivery drones. Photo: Mark Condren

Drone delivery company Manna is seeking to continue using a drone base in Blanchardstown, where it had been operating without planning permission.

Manna, founded by serial tech entrepreneur Bobby Healy, was recently hit with an enforcement action by Fingal after inspectors found it was operating launch sites without planning permission, including from the base in a car park at the health and leisure centre Junction 6 in west Dublin.

Last week, the company applied to Fingal County Council seeking retention permission for an “aerial delivery hub” at Junction 6. If successful, it would allow the compa

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