He has had a close association as a coach with Davy Fitzgerald with a number of inter-county teams.
[1] Bulfin first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Bruff club.
[2] At inter-county level, he was goalkeeper on the Limerick minor hurling team during the 1997 Munster MHC campaign.
[3] Buflin's coaching career began after being appointed GAA development officer at Limerick Institute of Technology in 2003.
It was here that he began his close association with Davy Fitzgerald and he was part of the LIT management team for the Fitzgibbon Cup successes in 2005 and 2007.