The delivery service will be offered to customers in the UCD area of Dublin in late March.

Drone delivery will be offered from two sites in Ireland by the end of the year.

If the coming business year could be defined by a few select words, surely ‘drone’ must figure prominently amongst them.

A pizza delivery by drone in three minutes may sound like something from a sci-fi movie, but tech entrepreneur Bobby Healy insists it will be a reality across Ireland by next year.