Quickfire Q & A with John Coughlan

In the Spotlight with John Coughlan, outgoing president, Association of Directors of Children’s Services

What’s been your best job?  
This one

If you were stuck on a desert island, and you could take one person and one object, who and what would they be?  
Steve Redgrave and his boat

Who inspires you and why?
The mother – it’s an Irish Catholic thing

Where is your favourite place? 
St Andrew’s Football Ground

Which celebrity would you want to play you in a film?
Jack Nicholson, of course

What was the last CD you bought?   
Kate Rusby

What are you reading?  
Jonathone Coe – What a Carve Up

What’s your favourite film? 
Chinatown

‘Big Brother’ – Treat or Trash?
Was treat – now abusive trash

Pets – yes or no?
Yes in principle, no in practice

If you were on Death Row, what would be your final meal?
Something from the real Balti triangle

How would you want to be remembered?  
Fondly, laughingly, through a glass darkly