Why DCC, PTSB, Irish Ferries and Flutter are at the centre of a summer reshaping corporate Ireland

Large Irish companies have been bought, gone private, or been moved off the stock market this summer. In late July, in a single week, the energy group DCC agree an €8bn takeover by the US private-equity firms KKR and Energy Capital Partners. Hours later, Irish Continental Group, the owner of Irish Ferries, confirmed a €1.2bn management buyout to take itself private. DCC: An Irish institution goes to US private equityLate last month, the Dublin-headquartered energy group agreed a £5.75bn (€7.68bn) takeover by a consortium of the US private-equity houses KKR and Energy Capital Partners. ICG's Irish Ferries operates on the arteries between Ireland and Britain, Britain and France, and Ireland and France.