Dealmakers did not seem to take much of a summer holiday, delivering an eruption of blockbuster M&A headlines at the end of August. DCC Energy’s shareholders agreed to KKR and Energy Capital’s €6.67 billion offer in August, despite the opposition of the company’s founding CEO Jim Flavin. Stripe acquired the AI platform OpenRouter in a deal worth over €6 billion. Private-equity firm Exponent invested another €750 million in H&MV Engineering, valuing the Limerick high-tech electrical contractor at €1.4 billion. But it is the variety and depth of Ireland’s deal pipeline that attests to the domestic economy’s solid performance, as illustrated…

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