Drone pilot was trespassing at Cork's Stryker plant

Stryker's medical devices facility in Anngrove, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork.

A drone pilot from Waterford who intended to take aerial imagery of a major manufacturing plant in East Cork was trespassing, a court has found.

Prosecuting, Inspector Tony O’Sullivan told Midleton District Court that on August 16 last year, drone pilot Kieran Jones, aged 54, of 9 Deerpark, Clonlea Power, Co Waterford, informed staff at the Stryker medical devices facility in Anngrove, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, that he would be flying his drone over the property and recording video footage.