Property developer Tom Coughlan is best known for his troubled stint at the helm of Cork City football club. Having bought the debt-riddled League of Ireland club out of examinership in 2008, it was back on the brink of closure over Revenue debts less than a year later, with Coughlan receiving an FAI ban for bringing the game into disrepute with his management practices.  In 2010 Coughlan, who had previously stood as a candidate for the Progressive Democrats in the 1997 Cork local elections, bowed out of the club. He was later restricted as a director, according to documents from…

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