Barry McCaffrey

Barry McCaffrey is a senior reporter with The Detail. He started his career in journalism as a trainee reporter in the Down Democrat in 1996 before moving to The North Belfast News in 1998. In 2001 he joined the Irish News, where he worked for 10 years. Barry has written for the Ireland on Sunday, Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post and Irish Voice. In 2013 he was awarded the overall award in the Attorney General’s Justice Media Awards. The award recognised his investigation into the use of solitary confinement in Northern Ireland’s prisons. In the same year Barry was named CIPR Digital Journalist of the Year.

In 2018 Barry and fellow journalist Trevor Birney were arrested for the suspected theft of documents from the Police Ombudsman’s Office, this was after the release of their documentary No Stone Unturned about the 1994 murder of six men in Loughinisland.