Anthony Coughlan is an Irish academic, secretary of the National Platform, and retired Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin.
He has contributed to various debates in the media such as on RTÉ's Questions and Answers, both in his capacity as a lecturer and as a spokesperson for lobby groups such as the National Platform.
He became involved in the Wolfe Tone Society when it was set up in 1964 acting as its secretary as well as the Dublin Housing Action Committees, both of which were heavily populated by members of the Republican Movement most of which evolved into Sinn Féin the Workers Party.
The Wolfe Tone Society campaigned for civil rights in Northern Ireland and supported the NICRA.
Coughlan was editor of Tuairisc, the paper of the Wolfe Tone Society;[5] he was offered the editorship of the United Irishman, but refused it.