From Love/Hate to Once, Maureen Hughes is Ireland’s go-to casting agent. Esther McCarthy meets the woman who made Cillian Murphy a star.

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Aoibhinn McGinnity –better known as Nidge and Trish – are reuniting for a very different production: a 1916 drama. Rowena Walsh chats to the actress about life after Love/Hate.

Nidge’s grisly end in Love-Hate proved a bonanza for RTÉ’s commercial arm last year after DVD sales of the final series helped propel the firm to pre-tax profits of €4.5m.

Love/Hate star Stephen Clinch has been served with a book of evidence, and sent forward for trial, over a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin City centre.

The multi-award-winning production company behind the Love/ Hate phenomenon, Octagon Films was sitting on accumulated profits of €242,365 at the end of last year.

“Obviously we’re really delighted and have only just shared the news with family and close friends,”

The actress was set to escape the rain and jet-off to Portugal tomorrow, when she discovered she had fallen victim to a holiday scam.

Three sold-out shows, 80,000 people and one Love/Hate star - it's been a good weekend for Ed Sheeran.

See full list of winners here.

Love/Hate actor Stephen Clinch has appeared in court today accused of stealing more than €50,000 during an armed robbery at the Gate Hotel on Dublin’s Parnell Street on Monday morning.

As reported by the Herald.ie, Clinch was one of the two men arrested by Gardai at the scene after they were pinned down by the staff.

Carey Mulligan is torn between three suitors in the period romance Far from the Madding Crowd, high school students are terrorised by an online bully in Unfriended and the end of the world beckons in the computer-animated adventure Two By Two: Oops … The Ark is Gone.

“it's like having Ireland in your pocket – just one click away”.

Love/Hate star Tom Vaughan Lawlor has revealed he finds it very tough to act out scenes of violence against women in his role as gangland villain Nidge.

Some of you had your eyes peeled!

'Love/Hate' Leroy Harris actor “made a mess” of his chance at avoiding a criminal record and a possible sentence for supplying cannabis, a court heard today.

A young actor who appeared in RTÉ drama Love/Hate has been discharged from hospital after he was the victim of a shooting in Dublin.

Love/Hate star Laurence Kinlan has revealed that every actor on the hit show will be rifling through scripts for the eagerly-anticipated fifth series, to check if they are getting killed off.

A young actor, who featured in the controversial cat-killing scene in the hit crime series Love/Hate, has been given another chance to co-operate with the Probation Service before he is sentenced for dealing cannabis.

A young actor, who featured in the controversial cat-killing scene in 'Love/Hate', has been remanded on bail pending sentence after he pleaded guilty to a cannabis dealing charge.

Surprised it took this long to be honest.

Last night's season finale of RTÉ's gangland drama Love/Hate had an average of 1,007,500 viewers, the broadcaster has revealed.

And... breathe. The finale of Love/Hate was expected to become the most watched TV show of the year, and for all those tuning in, it didn’t disappoint.

If you're not a fan, this will be lost on you…

First the cat, now this. End times, folks. End times.

Garda Kieran O Reilly - him from Love/Hate - is also the lead singer in a band. Is there no end to his talents?

"Never work with small children or animals," repeated Ryan to himself, ad infinitum.

It has helped launch the careers of U2 and Boyzone - and tonight a new star will grace 'The Late Late Show'.

An animal rights charity is urging the public to boycott Love/Hate, after the opening scene saw a cat being shot to death.

Remember 'Nidge' who sent a birthday greeting to his ma? He's not happy that she showed it to the world.