Padraig Connolly is an Irish inmate and PIRA member featured in Oz.
When he is sent to Em City, Connolly is immediately approached with an offer of friendship by Ryan O'Reily as they are both irish. Connolly declines as he dislikes O'Reily and believes that he will soon be released. O'Reily comes to his defense when He is anatagonized by Timmy Kirk and Jim Burns, causing Conolly to gain respect for him.
Conolly then agress to Ryan's offer of protection and recruits him to a plan to bomb the prison so that they can hopefully be freed. As the bomb is about to go off O'Reily has a change of heart and warns everyone to evacuate Em City. O'Reily tries to talk Connolly out of letting himself be killed in the expolsion, Connolly refuses and plans to let himself be killed. It doesn't matter as the bomb turns out to be a dud and he is presumably deported.
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