Life After Retirement and Personal Life
In 1994, on the Harvard University indoor track, Eamonn became the first man over age 40 to run a sub-four-minute mile. He was 41 at the time.
Coghlan works as director of fundraising (North America) for the Children's Medical & Research Foundation, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin and is a regular panellist on Ireland's television station RTÉ for athletics programs. He coaches a number of Irish international runners including David Campbell, David Fitzmaurice and his son John.
He and his wife, Yvonne, have four children. His youngest son, John, is one of Ireland's leading athletes who won a team gold medal in the European Cross Country Championships in Portugal in 2010. His eldest son, Eamonn, is a golf professional in Royal Oaks Golf and Country Club, Houston, Texas. Whilst Michael, took a different road, appeared on TV3's Total Xposure and is an aspiring actor. He is now pursuing a career in Los Angeles. His eldest child, Suzanne, has a career in banking and lives in Dublin married with two children, Amber (3) and Ethen (1).
In 2002, he appeared in part two of the original Mrs Browns Boys series.
In 2008, he served as Grand Marshall for Dublin's St Patrick's Day parade.
Coghlan's book Chairman of the Boards, Master of the Mile was released in 2008.
In May 2011, he was appointed as a Senator by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny. He sat as an independent until 7 February 2012, when he joined the Fine Gael party.
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