It is with alarm that I hear of the expansion of commercial drones across our airspace. 30,000 of them projected to pollute every city in Europe by 2030. And it appears to be a done deal, a question of reaching agreement about regulation- for apparently at the moment there is none.
I would personally call for a referendum across the country on this issue.
Our roads, our rivers, our seas are polluted in the name of so called progress and commercial enterprise. It is surely time to call a halt.....
Dublin 15 has been the testing ground for Manna Enterprise and a local petition has been drawn up by their Labour party councillor, John Walsh, to call for action in this area. For further info follow link bellow.
https://www.change.org/p/our-skies-our-say-restrict-drones-in-dublin-15-now
The word manna, by the way, comes from the Hebrew Man hu meaning- what is it? What indeed?
And the bible describes manna as a divine gift and a symbol of God's provision- a far cry from the take-a-ways projected to fall from our skies in the near future.
Dirge for a lost world
In the time before the drones
we could look up to the sky
and see the sun rising
and watch the clouds fly by.
In the time before the drones
moon and stars were on display-
gibbous, waxing, waning moods
and night skies' stellar array.
In the time before the drones
birdsong filled our ears
the blackbird, thrush and robin
flutes and trills allaying fears.
In the time before the drone
there was peace over this land
the only drone the sound of bees
sipping nectar from our flowers.
It's too late now to go back.
We have lost that peace and find
that the time before the drone
is a memory lost in time.
Copyright 2025 Cathy Leonard
wonderful poem, Cathy. Do you mind if I share it?
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