SIGNIFICANT transactions featuring the likes of CRH, C&C, Greenstar and Icon helped boost Irish merger/ acquisition (M&A) activity in the second quarter of the year, with 20 more deals than during the first three months of the year.

Mergers and acquisitions activity in Ireland is likely to remain at a high level for the foreseeable future and modest interest rate increases are unlikely to have any significant impact on activity, the Chief Executive of IBI Corporate Finance, Peter Crowley, said today.