Coughlan finally getting his rewards

JAMES COUGHLAN has travelled a long and frustrating road before finally realising the early potential he displayed with CBC and Dolphin.

Coughlan is now 29 and though a contracted Munster player for the past four years, it often looked like he was a peripheral figure when the biggest days came around for a team with a wealth of talent in the back-row department.

Coughlan shone during his time at Christians and represented Irish Schools but he failed to build on those achievements and spent much of his early 20s on AIL Division Two duty with the Cork club.