Irish Examiner view: Drone technology presents challenges at home and abroad

Drone technology is relatively cheap and remotely operated, which makes it very attractive to a state aiming to terrorise and provoke its targets. Picture: Dan Linehan

Is there a recent innovation which has attracted more negative connotations than the drone?

These tiny aircraft feature in the headlines regularly, and rarely for positive reasons. Concerns about privacy and noise pollution caused by drone deliveries have been expressed in Dublin recently, but such complaints pale in comparison to this week’s incidents abroad.