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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Lifestyle
Andrei Scintian & Mostafa Darwish

Drone delivering food and groceries in Balbriggan

Drone deliveries have hit the capital with customers in Balbriggan receiving food and coffee from the roof of Tesco.

Drone company Manna started to operate its drone delivery service in 2021 on the roof of Tesco's building.

The company first started in Ireland for delivery services in rural areas.

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Dave Sheahan is the Operations & Training Manager of Manna in Dublin.

Speaking to the Mirror, Mr Sheahan said that CEO Bobby Healy came up with the concept of it in the early days, and it just grew and progressed as time passed.

''What we do is we deliver hot food, coffees etc., to the population of Balbriggan.

He added that now the delivery would be two to three minutes instead of 45 minutes.

''We're not trying to get rid of car-based deliveries, but we're certainly going into the competitive side of things and hope for market share in the drone delivery or the delivery sector food delivery sector.

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