Limerick man takes up coaching role with Antrim senior hurling team

LIMERICK man Seoirse Bulfin has taken up a coaching role with the Antrim senior hurling team ahead of the 2026 season. The Bruff clubman has worked together with Antrim senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald over the last decade. 

It was a difficult 2025 for Antrim where they suffered relegation from the Leinster senior hurling championship. Bulfin and Fitzgerald will be hoping that they can guide the Saffrons back into the Leinster SHC. 

Antrim will face Laois, Down, Westmeath, London and Carlow in the Joe McDonagh Cup next year. Meanwhile Davy Fitzgerald's side will take on Clare, Wexford, Dublin, Carlow, Kildare and Down in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League. 

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Bulfin will be part of Davy Fitzgerald's backroom team alongside Arron Graffin, while it is expected that Neil McManus, Pat Bennett and Paudie Shivers have stepped back from their roles as part of the Antrim senior hurling backroom team.

He has worked with Davy Fitzgerald for eleven years at inter-county level. The pair first worked together at Fitzgibbon Cup level in LIT. 

The south Limerick native would then be Fitzgerald's right hand man and Maor Foirne with inter-county senior sides; Waterford (one year), Clare (five years) and Wexford (five years).

Earlier this year, Bulfin stepped down as Westmeath senior hurling manager after one year in charge. Westmeath were relegated from Division 1B and the Lake county failed to reached this year's Joe McDonagh Cup final. The Leinster side finished in fourth place in the Joe McDonagh Cup in 2025. 

Bulfin resigned from the role of Meath senior hurling manager in 2024. He was appointed to the Meath role in the autumn of 2022. In his first year in charge of 'the Royals', Bulfin led them a league title and the Christy Ring Cup in 2023.