In 2016, he won the Justice Media Award television journalist category for the coverage of the Gorse Hill repossession case.

In 2017, he was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards for reporting on poverty in Brazil ahead of the Rio Olympics.

[citation needed] Overseas assignments have included the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997 and the war and refugee crisis in Kosovo 1999.

He provided three hours of live coverage on Sky News for the 1916 Easter Rising - 90th anniversary military parade in Dublin.

[3][4][5] On 19 September 2022, Kennedy was the presenter of RTÉ's coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II from London, along with Kate Egan.