Ger Connolly

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Gerard (Ger) Connolly (born 16 April 1937) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

A farmer and auctioneer, Connolly was firest elected to the 19th Dáil as a TD for the Laois-Offaly constituency on his first attempt at the 1969 general election and re-elected until retiring at the 1997 general election.

When Charles Haughey became Taoiseach in 1979, Connolly was appointed Minster of State at the Department of the Environment and was re-appointed to the same position during the Haughey Governments of 1982, 1987, and 1989.

He was not appointed a Minster of State under the succeeding Albert Reynolds government and retired in 1997.

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