Finola Kennedy has been a Lecturer at University College Dublin and at the Institute of Public Administration, Ireland. She has served on a number of Boards, including the Housing Finance Agency (chairman), ACCBank and the Railway Procurement Agency. She was a member of the Review Group on the Constitution and the Commission on the Status of Women. She is the author of the pioneering study, Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (2001). She has contributed frequently to newspapers such as the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post and the Sunday Independent.
Book and book launch mentioned in The Irish Catholic Article in Irish Jesuit News Book mentioned in Andrew Connell's column in The Irish Catholic. Title mentioned in Catholic Herald http: //www.catholic herald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2011/07/11/the-john-paul-ii-vigil-that-transported-pilgrims-to-heaven/ Article in The Irish Independent Article in The Irish Echo online Interview with Finola Kennedy in The Catholic Herald This biography is an affectionate tribute to a friend and hero of the author, and a well-researched, if uncritical, piece of work about an interesting man who had far-reaching ideas and effects on Irish society.--Sanford Lakoff Finola Kennedy... has now turned her exceptional talents to providing a thorough, thoughtful, even-handed life of Frank Duff... [a] meticulously researched study.--Sanford Lakoff ... an admirable biography... In giving us this excellent biography of Frank Duff, Finola Kennedy has reminded us of fierce conflicts which existed between the laity and the Church in this country and of the real resistance to it.--Sanford Lakoff