Issue of Equity - Replacement

Applegreen plc

("Applegreen" or the "Company)

The following amendment has been made to the Issue of Equity announcement released on 8 December 2016 at 1.10 p.m. under RNS No 3504R.

In the announcement the allotted, called up and fully paid ordinary shares of Applegreen should have read '80,471,053 of nominal value EUR0.01 each.'

All other details remain unchanged. The full amended text is shown below.

Issue of Equity

Dublin, London, 8 December 2016: Application has been made to the Irish Stock Exchange and to the London Stock Exchange for 250,000 new ordinary shares of nominal value EUR0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on the ESM market of the Irish Stock Exchange and to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange ("Admission"). Admission is expected to occur on 14 December 2016.

These Ordinary Shares have been allotted pursuant to the exercise of options under the 2014 Share Option Scheme. These Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares.

 Following Admission, the allotted, called up and fully paid ordinary shares of Applegreen will be 80,471,053 of nominal value EUR0.01 each.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Applegreen

Bob Etchingham, CEO / Paul Lynch CFO +353 (0) 1 512 4800

Drury Porter Novelli (Irish media):

Paddy Hughes +353 (0) 1 260 5000

Goodbody

Siobhan Wall +353 (0) 1 667 0420

Shore Capital

Stephane Auton +44 (0) 20 7408 4090

Patrick Castle