Green Belt is proud of its heritage and history. Our mission is to provide professional forestry services, efficiently and effectively, with integrity and quality.

Our passionate, values-driven team is dedicated to growing our business while ensuring the complete satisfaction of our clients at all times.

To safeguard continuity and sustainability, our forests are economically viable, sustainably managed and planted in a socially responsible manner.

We believe that our honest and ethical approach to forestry will lead to an enhanced quality of life for our people and the communities they call home.

Timeline:

1982 - Mossie Ryan Tim O'Brien sit together and create Green Belt

1985 - The current HQ in Virginia is bought - they move out of the garage!

1986 - Disaster - our 2 clients leave the market on the same day

1986 - Success - support from Government led to investment from the US

1989 - The first afforestation grant in introduced as the Western Package

1992 - Premiums are paid for the first time for those planting

1995 - A bumper year for planting - Green Belt establishes 7,000 hectares of a 16k Ha national program

2000 - Issues in getting financial support from the government for forestry

2001 - Foot and Mouth hits Ireland

2002 - Ireland almost win the world cup (kind of)

2005 - Planting numbers are just over 10,000 hectares

2010 - Planting area starts to fall off

2012 - Green Belt grows its team of foresters

2014 - A revised forestry program is introduced with more focus on environmental impacts

2016 - Green Belt has assisted in the placing of more than €200 million into private forestry

2019 - All change with our first female CEO placed in charge - well done Imelda Connolly

2020 - COVID - Green Belt were deemed essential services so continued with our expert management

2023 - A new forestry program launched

2025 - Strom Eowyn devastates more than 10,000 hectares of forestry across Ireland

2025 - Minister Hayden appoints Michael Healy Rae to look after forestry