| Personal information | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Seoirse Bulfin | ||||||||||
| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||
| Born | 1979 (age 45–46) Bruff, County Limerick,Ireland | ||||||||||
| Occupation | University Lecturer | ||||||||||
| Club | |||||||||||
| Years | Club | ||||||||||
1997–2017 | Bruff | ||||||||||
| Club titles | |||||||||||
| Limerick titles | 0 | ||||||||||
| College(s) | |||||||||||
| Years | College | ||||||||||
1998–1999 1999–2003 | University of Limerick Mary Immaculate College | ||||||||||
| College titles | |||||||||||
| Fitzgibbon titles | 0 | ||||||||||
| Inter-county management | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||
| 2011 2011–2016 2016–2021 2021–2022 2022–2024 2024-2025 | Waterford (coach) Clare (coach) Wexford (coach) Meath (coach) Meath (manager) Westmeath | ||||||||||
| Inter-county titles as manager | |||||||||||
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Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979) is an Irishhurlingmanager and former player. He has had a close association as a coach withDavy Fitzgerald with a number of inter-county teams.[1]
Bulfin first playedhurling at juvenile and underage levels with theBruff 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 atMary Immaculate College, Bulfin lined out for the college's senior team in theFitzgibbon Cup andcaptained the team in his final year in 2003.[2] At inter-county level, he was goalkeeper on theLimerick minor hurling team during the1997 Munster MHC campaign.[3]
Buflin's coaching career began after being appointed GAA development officer atLimerick Institute of Technology in 2003. It was here that he began his close association withDavy Fitzgerald and he was part of the LIT management team for theFitzgibbon Cup successes in 2005 and 2007. Bulfin joined Fitzgerald ascoach to theWaterford senior hurling team in 2011 before later taking up the coaching role with theClare senior hurling team. During his five-year tenure Clare won a firstNational Hurling League title in38 years as well as theAll-Ireland SHC title in2013.[4] The Fitzgerald-Bulfin combination later brought aLeinster SHC title toWexford in2019. He was appointed manager of theMeath senior hurling team in August 2022, having spent the previous year as team coach.[5]