Ethos Care, a nursing home operating business backed by Lugus Capital, is in talks to acquire Sonas, a nursing home group with 12 nursing homes nationwide.  Ethos Care, which was formed two years ago and is led by former Irish rugby international and elderly care executive Mick O’Driscoll, is buying the group as part of a larger plan to become a major player in the Irish nursing home industry. A large international private equity fund is understood to be helping to finance Lugas Capital in building the new nursing home group to be operated by Ethos Care. The US-headquartered private…