{"id":97525,"date":"2025-10-01T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:13:09","slug":"jim-gavin-campaign-shot-drone-footage-at-two-events-without-proper-permission-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97525\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Gavin campaign shot drone footage at two events without proper permission \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drone footage was shot without the appropriate permissions in place at two events for Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a> presidential candidate Jim Gavin<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Mr Gavin, who has previously promoted safe drone use in his role as a senior executive with the Irish Aviation Authority<\/a> (IAA), confirmed on Wednesday that a drone shooting campaign footage did not receive the appropriate permissions when making a video of him participating in a parkrun last weekend.<\/p>\n

Later on Wednesday, a Fianna F\u00e1il spokeswoman confirmed that a second regulatory report had been made relating to drone footage that was shot at Mr Gavin\u2019s campaign launch last Sunday, at the Exo Building in Dublin\u2019s docklands. <\/p>\n

The report, known as a voluntary safety occurrence report, is aimed at improving aviation safety. <\/p>\n

A Fianna F\u00e1il spokeswoman said that Mr Gavin became aware on Tuesday that the IAA had been contacted about drone usage at the parkrun event. He then checked with the pilot if he had sought permission in advance. <\/p>\n

Upon discovering that no permission had been sought, Mr Gavin directed the pilot to the procedure to report the incident.<\/p>\n

After that, Mr Gavin asked about drone usage and permission in other campaign videos. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe found that similarly, at Exo, permission should have been sought and wasn\u2019t, so again he directed the pilot to file a report,\u201d the spokeswoman said. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u00c1ras campaigns: Jim Gavin and Catherine Connolly out on manoeuvres in Roscommon and DublinOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Asked by reporters on Wednesday about the further use of drones in his campaign, Mr Gavin said that the appropriate permissions were in place for another, separate, video. <\/p>\n

When asked specifically about the footage which led to the second regulatory report, Mr Gavin said his campaign planned an \u201caudit\u201d. He said that where the relevant regulatory approval wasn\u2019t in place, he would ask that a report be submitted. <\/p>\n

His spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Gavin was aware of the second report being submitted before fielding questions on it today. <\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Gavin said that he didn\u2019t see the drone at the parkrun event, which he participated in alongside Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said he was giving the run \u201cmy all\u201d and that Mr Chambers \u201cput me through my paces\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t see the drone – it was brought to my attention yesterday so I simply asked the drone operator to file an \u2018occurence report\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gavin said that aviation culture dictated that there would be no blame game and that the industry attempted to learn from mistakes. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in aviation all my life, drones are a great form of aviation, mistakes are made, we simply learn from them – managing football teams, managing teams myself, every day I\u2019ll make mistakes in this campaign, that\u2019s life, I\u2019m human, we simply learn from it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

He explained that under aviation rules, certain areas acted like a \u201cbox of airspace\u201d where drones could only operate with prior permissions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drone footage was shot without the appropriate permissions in place at two events for Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,12356,19487,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-97525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-fianna-fail","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-irish-aviation-authority","18":"tag-jim-gavin","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}