Brendan Bugler (born 1985) is an Irish hurler who played as a right wing-back for the

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senior team. Bugler made his first appearance for the team during the 2007 National League and became a regular player over the last few seasons of his playing career. During that time he has won one All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, one National League (Division 1B) medal, one

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medal and two

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award. At club level Bugler plays with Whitegate. He served as a Wexford senior hurling team selector under the management of

Davy Fitzgerald David Carler Fitzgerald (born 2 August 1971) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He is the current manager of the Antrim senior hurling team since August 2024. He was the manager of the Waterford county team from 2022 until 2024, ...

from October 2019, replacing

Stephen Molumphy Stephen Molumphy (born 11 January 1984) is an Irish former Hurling, hurler with Waterford senior hurling team. He played for Waterford Senior Hurling Championship, Waterford Senior Championship club Ballyduff Upper GAA, Ballyduff Upper and was ...

Playing career

Club

Bugler plays with his home club in Whitegate. In 2013 he captained them to an Intermediate county title. He also plays football with Cratloe.

Inter-universities

During his tenure as a student at the

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, Bugler enjoyed some success with the university senior team. In 2011 he won a

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medal following a 1-17 to 2-11 defeat of city rivals

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Inter-county

Bugler first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Clare minor hurling panel in 2002. He enjoyed little success in this grade, before later moving onto the Clare under-21 team. Bugler also enjoyed little success in this grade of hurling. In 2007 Bugler made his senior debut for Clare in a National League game against Down. Later that year he made his championship debut at midfield in a Munster quarter-final defeat by

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. Two years later in 2009 Bugler enjoyed his first major success with the Clare senior hurlers. A 1-12 t 1-7 defeat of Tipperary secured the pre-season

title. Bugler won a National League (Division 1B) medal in 2012 as Clare defeated

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by 0-21 to 1-16. In spite of enjoying little success in the subsequent championship, Bugler finished off the season by winning an

award. In October 2017, Bugler released a statement confirming his retirement from inter-county hurling.

Inter-provincial

Bugler has also lined out with

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in the inter-provincial series of games.

Coaching

In October 2019, Bugler was named by

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manager

as one of his selectors for 2020. On 28 December 2020,

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club Birr confirmed that Bugler would be its senior manager for 2021. In September 2023, he was named by

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as one of the new coaches of the Clare senior hurling team. On 21 July 2024, Clare defeated

by 3–29 to 1–34 to win the All-Ireland title for a fifth time.

Honours

Team

;Whitegate

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(2) : 2009, 2013 ;Clare *

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(1) : 2013 *

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(2): 2012 (Div 1B), 2016

Individual

* GAA-GPA All-Star Award (2): 2012, 2013

References

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