 In what was his last game for Cork, he ended on the losing side after the 2-14 to 2-10 defeat.Coughlan was first selected for the Munster inter-provincial football team in advance of the 1968 Railway Cup.He made his first appearance for the team on 25 February 1968 when he lined out at centre-back in the 0-11 to 0-05 defeat by Leinster.