Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Mícheál de Buitléir | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Position | Right corner-back | ||
Born | Kilkenny, Ireland | 4 February 2000||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||
Occupation | Farm manager | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
O'Loughlin Gaels | |||
Club titles | |||
Kilkenny titles | 0 | ||
Colleges(s) | |||
Years | College | ||
Waterford Institute of Technology | |||
College titles | |||
Fitzgibbon titles | 0 | ||
Inter-county(ies)* | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2022- | Kilkenny | 3 (0-00) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 2 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NHL | 0 | ||
All Stars | 2 | ||
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 22:28, 25 March 2022. |
Michael Butler (born 4 February 2000 [1] ) is an Irish hurler who plays for Kilkenny Senior Championship club O'Loughlin Gaels and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a right corner-back.
Butler played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the O'Loughlin Gaels club, while simultaneously lining out as a schoolboy with CBS Kilkenny. After securing minor and under-21 titles, he eventually progressed on the club's senior team and lined out in the 2021 Kilkenny SHC final defeat by Ballyhale Shamrocks. [2] Butler first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor hurling team that won the Leinster MHC title in 2017, before subsequently winning a Leinster U20 title in 2019. [3] [4] He made his Kilkenny senior hurling team debut during the 2022 National Hurling League. [5]
Team | Year | National League | Leinster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
Kilkenny | 2022 | Division 1B | 5 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-00 |
Career total | 5 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-00 |
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