There is a 2.6-kilometre looping trail around the edge of 45-hectare Cabinteely Park in south Dublin. A scenic walk meanders between forest, wildflowers, a pond, and an 18th-century country house. It is a trail that private equity fund partners Jonny Cosgrave and Peter Garvey became familiar with during Ireland’s first wave of lockdowns.  From August 2020 on, they reckon they might have lapped the park almost ten times as they discussed investing in Salmon Software with its founder and chief executive John Byrne. “It was a non-traditional way of doing things,” Cosgrave recalled. “But it was during Covid-19 so meeting…

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