Consulting
Advice you can depend on
We work with organisations that aspire to achieve excellence and maintain a safe working environment
Who this is for
Three situations we see regularly.
“We want to start using drones.”
You have a use case — survey, inspection, planning, enforcement, construction, forestry — and need clarity on what the legal, insurance and governance burden actually amounts to.
We advise that you ascertain this before making any significant purchases.
“We already fly, and we’re not sure we should be.”
Drones arrived in your organisation through a department, not a policy. Nobody has ascertained the operational category, the pilot certificates, the insurance or the parameters. This is a common inquiry we get.
“We’re being asked questions we can’t answer.”
A tender, an audit, an insurer or an incident has produced a request for documentation that we need help with.
Counter-UAS and denial
Other people’s drones are the problem!
A growing share of our advisory work is not about you flying. It is about the encroachment of UAVs in the sky impinging on our business.
Prisons, airports, ports, energy and water infrastructure, data centres, stadiums, industrial sites and government buildings all face the same question, and most do not understand the landscape or consequences: what happens when a drone appears overhead, who decides what to do, and what may we lawfully do about it?
Drone Space advises on that problem independently of the people selling detection hardware. An engagement typically covers:
- Threat and vulnerability assessment — what a drone could actually achieve against your site, from which approaches, and what it would cost an adversary to try. Surveillance, contraband delivery, disruption and reconnaissance are different problems with different answers.
- What the law allows you to do — Detection, jamming, interception and physical capture sit in very different legal positions, and some of what is marketed to Irish sites cannot lawfully be used by an operator.
- Detection and mitigation procurement — independent guidance on what the technology can and cannot do, written for the buyer. We are not beholden to any reseller relationships with any detection vendor.
- Incident response planning — who is called, in what order, what is recorded, what is reported to the IAA and An Garda Síochána, and how the site keeps operating while it happens.
- Exercise and briefing — educating the employees and walking the plan through.
Counter-UAS work is scoped case by case and discussed privately. Nothing about a client site, its vulnerabilities or its mitigations is ever published, described or referenced by us — including as a case study. Start the conversation here.
Where policy is heading
The ground is moving under Irish organisations.
A national framework
Ireland published a National Policy Framework for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in August 2025, with an Implementation Action Plan in March 2026. It brings local authorities into drone governance directly.
Geographical zones
A National Working Group on UAS Geographical Zones is being established, with local authority involvement. Zones will be developed for environmental and privacy reasons, not only for aviation safety.
Enforcement
The IAA and An Garda Síochána have increased their oversight, and several prosecutions have already been successful. The enforcement posture is changing.
Start with the situation, not the solution.
Tell us what your organisation is doing with drones today and what is prompting the question. We will tell you what it actually requires and what it would take to close the gap.