I’m a ‘half-wit’ for killing off Gillen: Love/Hate writer

Love/Hate creator Stuart Carolan says he sometimes feels like a “half-wit” for killing off a gang boss character played by Aiden Gillen in his hit TV series.

The star was written out of the RTÉ show at the start of 2012 when his character, John Boy, was murdered with two shots to the head at the end of the second series, leaving his lieutenant, Nidge, to step into the vacuum.

The writer of the country’s most successful TV drama, Stuart Carolan, told the Ian Dempsey Show yesterday that he would have had second thoughts about putting a bullet in John Boy’s head if he’d known the show would become such a runaway success.