Paudie Butler

Paudie Butler, born in 1950, is a retired GAA hurling coach and team manager and former hurler and Gaelic footballer who was a dual player for the Tipperary senior teams in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He joined the senior football team during the 1977 championship and was a regular for just three seasons, during which he also lined out with the senior hurling team, and at club level he played for Drom and Inch. In retirement he became a coach, managing the Tipperary minor hurling team that won the All-Ireland in 1996, serving as coach and selector of the Tipperary under-21 team in 2002 and managing the Laois senior hurling team for three years. He is best known for his role as the GAA's National Director of Hurling, and managed the Newport senior hurling team to its first North Tipperary Hurling Championship in 1996, ending a 61-year gap.