Norman Kennedy was a trade unionist and politician in Ireland.
Kennedy worked in a Belfast linen factory for 20 years.[1] He was a prominent member of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union. He served as President of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1957.[2] He worked closely with James Larkin, Jr and John Conroy to complete its reunification with the Congress of Irish Unions,[3] and became President of the united organisation, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, in 1961.[4] He also served on the Northern Ireland Economic Council.[5]
Kennedy served as a Northern Ireland Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1965 until its proguation in 1972. From 1970 to 1971, he served as a Deputy Speaker.[6] [7] He then withdrew from politics and trade unionism, and led the consortium which established Downtown Radio, Northern Ireland's first commercial radio station.[8]