Actor Laurence Kinlan, who played the ill-fated Elmo in Love/Hate says the hit crime drama "will not and should not" return for a sixth season despite his own "selfish" reasons for wanting to see it back on our television screens.
Kinlan was speaking to RTÉ TEN at the launch of Conor McPherson's The Night Alive, the opening play at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.
Kate Stanley Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Laurence Kinlan in The Night Alive
He said: "For selfish reasons, I'd say yeah, I'd love to see it come back but I don't think it will and I don't think it should because we've had a year off now and a lot of the big characters have been killed off and I think if they went again they'd have to reintroduce a lot of characters.
"You couldn't come back and do a year. You'd have to come back and do two or three years. I don't think it will happen and I don't think it should. We haven't heard that it is and I don't think we will any time soon."
The Night Alive, which also stars Adrian Dunbar, Kate Stanley Brennan and Frank Grimes, runs at the Gaiety Theatre from September 23 to October 4.
Click on the video link to watch TEN's full interview with Kinlan and a Preview of The Night Alive.
