Alright, here's the straight up deal with Connolly's.
If you live near this place and want a sports bar to hang at with your friends, this is a great spot for that. It's by no means a "destination" if you're coming from a ways away. It's no craft beer bar. It's probably not the place you want to go to meet people (it seemed to me that people mostly kept to their own groups.) But this place has some nice TVs, it's laid out well, the beer is well priced, and they have a couple of decent pool tables.
This isn't a place that I will be frequenting, as it is out of my way, but if I lived down the street I would probably have my own butt print left in one of the bar stools by now.