Manna Aero should have been dropping off its first takeaway orders around a Dublin university campus by drone in March but then the coronavirus pandemic shut the country and its pilot programme down.
Within a week, the drone company was testing out an entirely different concept - delivering medication and critical supplies to isolated elderly people whom the Irish government, like many others, had told to stay home to avoid infection.
Manna worked with Ireland's health service operator to test the service in Moneygall, the small midlands town best known for its ancestral links to former US President Barack Obama, who visited in 2011.