Sometimes you’re better off just doing one bar but doing it well. It’s easy to open a bar, it’s much harder to do it well

Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon have hit paydirt in New York with their cocktail joint The Dead Rabbit, but success hasn’t been without its costs

Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon Pic: Brent Herrig

CV: Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon

Ages:30 and 47

From: both Ardoyne, north Belfast

Families: McGarry: in a relationship with Katie Marino; Muldoon: wife Anne and stepdaughters Laura and Christina

Hobbies: McGarry: running; Muldoon: travelling

Favourite TV shows: both Game of Thrones (they are hoping to visit the filming locations on their next trip home)

‘I came very close to not being here.” Jack McGarry doesn’t stumble over his words when he delivers ...