Time and tide wait for no man. Nor do Irish folks out to make a joke online.

Keen viewers of the RTE drama Love/Hate will know that in last night's episode, Elmo was on the hunt for some of garden-dwelling gnomes, and more specifically for the contents hidden inside their hats. A millinery mistake later, and he was left with a few red-hatted ones he needed to sell on. 

Well, Done Deal this morning saw Elmo selling 100 of the garden favourites at €2 a go...

(Image: DoneDeal)

Laurence Kinlan, the actor who plays Elmo on the smash hit show, has been tweeting about the gnomes today. Note to elf, his gnome puns have been fairy funny...

I'm getting a lot of requests for Gnomes this morning. I'm not selling them Gnome more

— Laurence Kinlan (@laurencekinlan) October 20, 2014

I've seen it all now, holy Jaysus!! 😂 pic.twitter.com/isccbFuAVq

— Laurence Kinlan (@laurencekinlan) October 20, 2014