 He top-scored for Cork with 2-04 from play but ended the game on the losing side following the 2-22 to 2-09 defeat.After missing the Cork senior hurling team's Munster Championship campaign, Coughlan was recalled to the starting fifteen at midfield on 16 August 1970 for the 4-20 to 2-09 All-Ireland semi-final defeat of Antrim.On 6 September 1970, he was relegated to the substitutes' bench for the All-Ireland final against Wexford.