Playing Career
Byrne began his career as a trainee with Port Vale and although he spent three years with the club after turning professional, made only ten league appearances. He joined Barry Town in July 2003, but left to join Southport in August 2003 without playing a game. He failed to establish himself as a regular and was released by Southport at the end of the season.
He joined Marine in July 2004, but played just five times the following season, before being ruled out with a leg injury received in the game at home to Prescot Cables on 8 September. After almost a year out of the side, he returned for the start of the 2005–06 season and went on to play 15 times in the Northern Premier League that season.
He joined Kendal Town in 2006, since becoming a crowd favourite, picking up both the player of the season and Manager's player of the season awards. They finished 19th in the Northern Premier League in 2006–07, 11th in 2007–08, and fifth in 2008–09 and 2009–10. In the summer of 2010 he signed with Skelmersdale United of the Northern Premier League Division One North. United finished as the division's runners-up in 2010–11, finishing behind champions Chester on goal difference. The "Skems" went on to lose to A.F.C. Fylde in the play-offs. They then finished seventh in 2011–12.
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