Colum Kenny Author

Colum Kenny is Professor of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland. A barrister, journalist, founding board member of the EU Media Desk in Ireland, and a council member of the Irish Legal History Society, Kenny writes a weekly column for Ireland’s main Sunday broadsheet, the Sunday Independent. His books include The Power of Silence, a study of the central role of silence in communication, and Fearing Sellafield, an analysis of Britain’s controversial nuclear reprocessing plant. Kenny resides in the seaside town of Bray, by the Wicklow Hills just outside Dublin, Ireland, with his wife, Catherine Curran, and their three sons.