‘I built my mate a fake bar at uni – now I’m designing his real one’

Tom, 34, and Alex, 33, both drama students at the university, said they initially needed someone to design a bar setting for their play at the time.

Roisin’s “bold, playful and colourful” designs attracted the pair when designing their real life bar, Tom said.

“She’s taken us out of our comfort zone in some respects, but also she’s gone and given us ideas that we would never come up with ourselves.”

Alex said the designer had added “the magic sprinkles”

The bar will close at the end of the month to start the redesign with plans to reopen three months later.

Roisin said it was a full circle moment to be working on another bar design 12 years later.

“We have changed so much but then you can see our old uni selves back together as well in the same breath,” she said.

“There’s 12 years that have passed, we have all done so much and different things and we’re a lot older looking now.

“It just feels right and it’s lovely they’re trusting me with this.”

In her post about the redesign on Instagram, Roisin summed the project up: “I built my mates a fake bar at uni… and 12 years later, I’m redesigning their real on.”