[citation needed] Michael Butler played for the Dublin Junior team in 1937 and won an All Ireland final with them that year.
He graduated to the senior team the following year and he won an All Ireland in 1938 with Dublin playing full back.
This was Butler's only All Ireland win but he would appear in 4 more finals losing to Cork in each, 1941, 1942, 1944 with Dublin and 1946 with Kilkenny.
Leinster 2-5 to 2-4 Munster Butler lived in Dublin until 1952 when he moved to England and was first Chairman of the Derbyshire county board.
[citation needed] He returned to Ireland in 1973,[3] and lived in Erril, Rathdowney, County Laois.