Forestry Committee

Geraldine O’Sullivan
Geraldine O’Sullivan MScAgr (Forestry) is a professional forester with twenty years’ experience in the forest sector. She first worked as a Research Assistant in UCD on the ECOWOOD project researching the environmental impacts of harvesting on peaty sites, having completed her Masters.
She progressed to work with Donegal County Council on the EU Peace and Reconciliation project Forest Link, which examined European models of best practice in adding value to timber and developing community woodlands. She then worked in the private forest sector to develop harvesting and logistic models to supply forest biomass into the bioenergy sector.
Geraldine has been with the IFA Farm Forest section since 2008 where she has overseen the implementation of two Forestry Programmes and secured funding of over €480 million to support farmers to expand and mobilise timber under the current Forestry Programme 2014 – 2020.
About the Forestry Committee
- IFA Farm Forestry Committee is chaired by Jason Fleming and represented by committee members elected by IFA’s 29 county executives.
- IFA National Farm Forestry Committee represents the interests of private forest owners on a broad range of issues affecting farm income.
- The Committee carries out work at local, National and European level to represent the interests of all farm forestry members to optimise sector development and forest policy.
Forestry Committee
COUNTY | NAME | MOBILE |
CHAIR | Jason Fleming | 087 6739343 |
VICE CHAIR | Simon White | 087 2726952 |
CAVAN | Richard Moeran | 087 9120001 |
CARLOW | John H Hanbidge | 087 9968400 |
CLARE | John Fitzgerald | 086 3756591 |
CORK (C) | John O’Brien | 087 2363530 |
CORK (N) | John Magner | 086 1591585 |
CORK (W) | Tadhg Healy | 087 2357352 |
DONEGAL | Ross Buchanan | 086 7774295 |
DUBLIN | Christopher Keogh | 086 2735176 |
GALWAY | Pat Lyons | 086 8117042 |
KERRY | Francis Foley | 087 6711212 |
KILDARE | John McDonald | 087 8224244 |
KILKENNY | Andrew O’Carroll | 087 2356029 |
LAOIS | Michael McEvoy | 087 9880296 |
LEITRIM | Pat Munday | 086 6050522 |
LIMERICK | Simon White | 087 2726952 |
LONGFORD | Michael Lennon | 086 1531244 |
LOUTH | John Roche | 086 8170690 |
MAYO | Kevin Carey | 086 1698449 |
MEATH | Willie Fallon | 086 8794075 |
MONAGHAN | James Corr | 087 8226841 |
OFFALY | Murtagh Connor | 087 6193506 |
ROSCOMMON | Padraig Corcoran | 087 6430710 |
SLIGO | Walter Kivlehan | 087 2812395 |
TIPP. NTH | Padraic Stapleton | 087 6215873 |
TIPP. STH | Dermot Ryan | 086 2831531 |
WATERFORD | Gabriel Foley | 086 6025836 |
WESTMEATH | Claudia Marl | 087 7839228 |
WEXFORD | Andrea McCann | 086 6014329 |
WICKLOW | Charles Tottenham | 087 6868717 |