Barry J Whyte
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Barry J Whyte has been a professional journalist since 2003 and has worked for RTE, The Phoenix magazine, and a New York-based magazine called Institutional Investor.
In 2016, he won the Business Interview of the Year category in the UCDMichael Smurfit Graduate Business School journalism awards.
His first book was called Two Little Boys: An account of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings and their Aftermath and it was published in 2004.
In 2014, he published Making the Weight: Boxing’s Lethal Secret, a 10,000-word digital e-book investigating the threat of long-term brain damage to professional boxers caused by the process of tactical dehydration allowed by boxing’s 24-hour weigh-in rule. His latest book, Impossible Dream, The Inside Story of Steorn,( Gill Books) was published in 2020.
He is a native of Kildare and currently lives in Newbridge.
