Up in the air: Meet the drone takeaway delivery entrepreneur

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a spice bag. Emmet Ryan meets Bobby Healy, a serial entrepreneur who plans to make billions by using drones to deliver food to your door

Bobby Healy: ‘I’m a tech guy. I’ve a software background with a little bit of engineering. I like to break things, play with them, learn about them’ Pic: Maura Hickey

At the age of 20, Bobby Healy landed in Mexico and began to build a travel tech business. He later sold off Eland, but the company is still going strong today.

After that, he was the technical brain behind the car hire and transport web giant CarTrawler. Healy’s latest project has the same kind of ambition and certainly involves movement, but it can safely be described as wildly different to anything he has ...