Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979) is an Irish

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and former player. He has had a close association as a coach with

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, ...

with a number of inter-county teams.

Playing career

Bulfin first played

at juvenile and underage levels with the

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club. He eventually progressed onto the club's adult teams with whom he had a 20-year association before his retirement in 2017. As a student at

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, Bulfin lined out for the college's senior team in the

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and

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ed the team in his final year in 2003. At inter-county level, he was goalkeeper on the Limerick minor hurling team during the 1997 Munster MHC campaign.

Coaching career

Buflin's coaching career began after being appointed GAA development officer at

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in 2003. It was here that he began his close association with

and he was part of the LIT management team for the

successes in 2005 and 2007. Bulfin joined Fitzgerald as

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to the

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in 2011 before later taking up the coaching role with the Clare senior hurling team. During his five-year tenure Clare won a first

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title in 38 years as well as the All-Ireland SHC title in

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. The Fitzgerald-Bulfin combination later brought a Leinster SHC title to

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. He was appointed manager of the Meath senior hurling team in August 2022, having spent the previous year as team coach.

Honours

;Limerick Institute of Technology *

: 2005, 2007 ;Ballyagran *Limerick Senior Camogie Hurling Championship: 2011 ;Clare *

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;Wexford *

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship The Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hur ...

References

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