List of Love/Hate episodes

Nidge and the lads return from Nidge's stag weekend in Prague, Jimmy Byrne has returned from London. Nidge, Darren and Tommy attack Jimmy Byrne on his way home from the pub and drag him into the back of a Van to interrogate him about the murder of Darren's Brother. Jimmy insists he did not kill Robbie, Darren believes him and lets him go, both Nidge and Tommy are not happy. John Boy orders Hughie to kill Jimmy. Hughie gets a favor returned by Martin to help him with the murder. Hughie and Martin kill Jimmy in front of his wife and child. After a heavy night of drugs Hughie discovers that Eric, Nidge, Tommy and Darren have been taken in for questioning, while John Boy is arrested on his return from Amsterdam. Hughie begins to get paranoid as the newspaper suggest that he is a loose cannon and someone who John Boy will want dead. Hughie returns to Martin's caravan and kills him in a frenzied attack in which he thinks Martin talked to somebody. Hughie admits to John Boy - who is his half brother - that he killed Robbie over €300 he was owed. Stumpy's jealousy of Darren and Rosie reaches boiling point when he beats her and puts her in hospital. The Gardaí go to arrest Stumpy only to find he has left Rosie on her own. Stumpy asks John Boy for help, John Boy gives him a place to hide out. Darren calls John Boy after hearing of Jimmy's death, pointing out that it was Hughie who originally blamed him for Robbie's death and implying that Hughie is therefore the likely assassin.

Rosie loses her baby and explains her pain to Darren. She doesn't want Darren to kill Stumpy but she wants him to feel pain. As Stumpy leaves his house Darren attacks him. Nidge goes to tell John Boy that he can go to the wedding but then John Boy backs out since Mary is Trish's bridesmaid. Hughie and Elmo attack Tommy and Darren. Elmo is shot during the shoot out. Hughie returns to John Boy and suggests revenge at the wedding. John Boy on the other hand decides to go to the wedding. Hughie makes a scene at the wedding, showing up Nidge's and Tommy's indiscretions in front of Trish and Mary. John Boy wants to leave the country with Hughie until everything dies down. Hughie decides to hunt down Tommy, with Elmo and his cousin Potsy. However, Hughie accidentally shoots himself while showing his gun off to Potsy. As he lies dying, Elmo decides to leave him rather than calling the emergency services.

A year has passed since Darren's quest for his brother's killer ended in him being shot by Stumpy as he tried to walk away from John Boy Power's toxic gangland world. Now, almost fully recovered but tortured by PTSD, he is working as a gofer for newcomer on the scene Fran, a mid-level cannabis and hooky cigarettes smuggler and loan shark.

As tensions come to a head the gang threatens to implode: Luke's obsession with Mary is becoming more dangerous, while Siobhan's panic attack at the airport could get Tommy killed. A paranoid John Boy finally tips over the edge when he finds Debbie taking heroin and interrogates her, getting her to admit it was Aido who's been supplying her. Giving him one last job to square his debt, John Boy orders Darren to kill Aido. Darren is conflicted as to whether he can kill again and discusses his concerns with Nidge. Then, with Luke as his accomplice, a masked Darren enters the pub where John Boy, Nidge, Aido and the gang are drinking. Darren turns his gun on John Boy and kills him with two shots to the head, revealing a double-cross that he and Nidge had been planning.

Nidge swiftly fills the power vacuum and gets the gang back to business as usual. Rosie has realised what her lover has become, and Darren is devastated when she breaks up with him. Meanwhile Mary finally realizes the extent of Luke's psychosis as she finds him lurking in her bedroom at night.

Boxed into a corner Nidge contemplates a new life in Spain but realises it's only a matter of time before Dano catches up with him. Nidge decides to return to his house to collect money, passports, etc. While there he meets Darren and gives him some of the money he owes him to help finance his move to London. As he leaves, Nidges car is ambushed by Dano and his accomplices and Nidge is loaded into the boot of Dano's car. Darren comes to the rescue and rescues Nidge. Nidge decides he will have to confront the situation,and goes to Dundalk to meet with Tony and arrange a deal, which involves betraying one of his own. In the closing moments, Darren is shot and killed by Lizzie, whose brother he killed whilst saving Nidge.

Nidge is summoned back to Spain, where Terence demands a terrible price for his continued support, while Siobhan and Moynihan reach an unholy deal of their own. Terence orders the brutal murder of Janet to set an example to possible rats in Nidge's gang. After being rearrested, Fran is gang-raped in prison by Noeley Hughes and his accomplices. Siobhan plants Git Loughman's finger bone in Nidge's bathroom and calls it in to Moynihan. She finally reveals to Nidge that she was the rat in his gang, enraging him. In a twist ending, Patrick attacks Nidge and Siobhan is fatally caught in the crossfire.^[8] As wife Trish and son Warren look on in horror, Nidge is finally shot and killed by Patrick.^[9]