Irish aye for student haunt

A BID turn popular student haunt The Tron into an Irish bar has been given the go-ahead by city planners.

Mitchells & Butlers is rebranding the Hunters Square pub as an O'Neill's and will now carry out a raft of alterations, including an emerald green colour scheme, a new entranceway, an oak staircase, a larger kitchen and reconfigured seating to make it more "diner friendly".

While the Irish brand is new to Edinburgh, it has been a fixture in Glasgow for years, with pubs in Queen Street, Sauchiehall Street and Merchant Square.

As well as operating the Tron and the city's other Scream bar The Crags, Mitchells & Butlers owns Greyfriars Bobby, The Haymarket, the Conan Doyle, Robin's Nest and All Bar One, to name but a few of its 30 or so Capital bars.