He plays hurling with his local club Drom & Inch, and is a former Tipperary senior inter-county hurler.
Seamus Butler was educated locally and later attended the Tipperary Institute where he collected a Ryan Cup medal in 2003.
[citation needed] Butler first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Tipperary minor hurling team in the late 1990s.
[clarification needed] Four years later in 2001 Butler was captain of the Tipperary under-21 team that lost the Munster final to Limerick.
The following year Butler made his senior competitive debut in a National Hurling League game against Cork.