Mary Lou O Kennedy

Over the past twenty years Mary Lou has managed and been a director/member of numerous private and non profit companies. Her early management experience was in the Surveys Unit of the Economic and Social Research Institute, then as CEO of County Wexford Partnership Ltd for 11 years and then as Managing Director of Tunstall Emergency Response Ltd for a further 5 years.

As well as being a director in a number of private companies, Mary Lou has held numerous directorships of non profit companies. She was Chairperson of Feachtas Ealaion Teoranta (St Michael’s Theatre Management Company, New Ross) for 15 years and was active with other committees, fora and groups concerned with community, social and employment services at local, regional and national level. More recently she has served on the Council of the  and as Chairperson of its Education Committee from 2009 to 2011. She is a member of the