Padraig Connolly
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Padraig Connolly, played by Brian F. O'Byrne, is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) member awaiting deportation, his case is unsuccessfully appealed by activist attorney Arnold Zelman. After Connolly is sent back to Oz, he assists Irish inmate Ryan O'Reilly in a plan to detonate a bomb. The bomb is a dud, however, and their mission fails. After that point it can be assumed that Connolly is deported to England to stand trial for the murder of a British officer in Northern Ireland.
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Connolly arrives in Emerald City, and is immediately admired by O'Reilly and Unit manager Tim McManus. In Em City, O'Reilly offers friendship, which Connolly initially refuses as he is not concerned about a long term stay in Oz. As a member of the PIRA Connolly is immediately viewed as a threat by both the British government and several inmates. After he is beaten by two such inmates, both O'Reilly and Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier come to his defense.
Afterwards, Zelman tells him that his appeal to remain in the US has been denied and that he will be deported to England shortly. Needing protection, Connolly accepts O'Reilly's offer in friendship and begins to help build a bomb that will destroy Oz and hopefully allow them to be freed. As the bomb is about to go off, O'Reilly has a change in heart and warns everyone to leave Em City. McManus quickly evacuates it and has the S.O.R.T. team ready for action but the bomb is a dud and fails.
The S.O.R.T. team and COs then beat Connolly and from there it can be assumed that he is deported. Shortly afterwards, a CO goes to the kitchen for a cigarette break and as the match is lit, both Em City and the Kitchen are engulfed by flames.
