Mary Kenny

[9] In 1971, Kenny travelled with Nell McCafferty, June Levine and other Irish feminists on the so-called "Contraceptive Train" from Dublin to Belfast to buy condoms, then illegal within the Republic of Ireland.

[6] In 1973, Kenny was allegedly "disturbed in the arms of a former cabinet minister of President Obote of Uganda during a party", in her words 'snogging an intelligent African judge' (who had one leg, something she did not notice at the time; he was later murdered by Idi Amin), which led poet James Fenton to coin the euphemism "Ugandan discussions"[12] to mean sexual intercourse.

[13] The phrase was first used by the magazine Private Eye on 9 March 1973,[14] but has been widely used since then and was included by the BBC in a list of "The 10 most scandalous euphemisms" in 2013.

Roy Foster described Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy (2009) as "characteristically breezy, racy and insightful".

Kenny, along with Éamon Ó Cuív and Frank Feighan, is an advocate of the Republic of Ireland returning to its membership of the Commonwealth of Nations.