Kelly served as Ireland's chief delegate to the NPT review in 2010,[3] and chaired the negotiations on the Middle East at the 2010 NPT Review Conference, garnering accolades from the Laura Kennedy, the US Representative to the Conference, who noted Kelly had done a "remarkable job" dealing with very difficult issues in the section on the Middle East.
Kelly presented her credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin noting, "My team and I will continue to work to strengthen and expand the co-operation between our countries, especially in the fields of technology and medical advances, among others.
He observed that Kelly had arrived at a difficult point in time, but underscored that his country was committed to the status-quo on the Temple Mount, "Israel has no war with Islam, and we have no intention to change the status-quo agreement on the Temple Mount – we have not, and will not change one letter of the agreement.
[7] The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claimed the ambassador would be told that meetings she plans for herself or visiting Irish officials would be restricted to low-tier diplomats, and that measures would be taken against all 16 EU member states, including Ireland, which urged the EU to adopt labelling.
She joined other guest speakers, the former Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Boaz Moda'i and Prof. Tamar Hermann, director of international academic initiatives at the Open University of Israel, in discussing bilateral relations.
[9] On 17 March 2016 Kelly assisted in presenting United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) Medals to 135 Irish soldiers of the 50th Infantry Group based in Camp Ziouani in the Golan Heights and reflect Ireland's "valuable contribution to peace and security in the region."