Career
He is best known for his role as Fran in RTÉ One series Love/Hate. In 2011 Coonan played Dave Fennel in the Irish crime film Between the Canals, written and directed by Mark O"Connor. In 2013 Coonan was handed a four-year driving ban after he ran into a motorcyclist pushing him forward and causing him to lose control of the bike.
Coonan’s girlfriend Kim O"Driscoll gave birth to a baby girl in the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin in May 2014.