It is an incongruous setting. In a sparse garret room of a Georgian townhouse, furnished with nothing but two chairs and a white table, Lorna Conn is discussing CPL’s international expansion. A climate protest is vibrating off the single-glazed windows of the recruitment firm’s Merrion Square headquarters and so we have scaled to the top of the building and are secreted at the back. The space belies CPL’s new firepower from Outsourcing Inc, the Japanese conglomerate, that acquired it for €318 million in 2020 in an all-cash deal. At €11.25 per share, the deal represented a 36 per cent premium…

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