She has worked as a staff news writer for The Irish Times, where she wrote the Dail (parliament) sketch, and for The Guardian.
She has been a columnist for the Museums Journal and is a regular contributor to the Art Newspaper.
At The Guardian, she edited the diary column, and was arts and heritage correspondent.
[2][3] Kennedy's mother was the novelist Val Mulkerns, herself the daughter of the Irish revolutionary Jimmy (J.J.) Mulkerns, who was interned his involvement in the Four Courts during the Easter Rising in 1916.
[5] Their daughter was born in Dublin and attended University College Dublin (UCD) before joining The Irish Times, where she became the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer.