Nidge and Charlie stalk RTÉ schedule

As crime boss Nidge in Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan Lawlor hasn’t flinched from dispatching his enemies, and soon he’ll be playing another character who knows where the bodies are buried.

But this time it will be political skeletons in the cupboard that preoccupy him as he takes on the role of spin doctor, PJ Mara, always at Charles Haughey’s side, in the RTÉ drama, Charlie.

Speaking at the launch of RTÉ One’s new schedule, Vaughan Lawlor, who will also be returning to the screen in the fifth series of Love/Hate, said he loved the challenge of depicting Mara presented.