Treasury Stock Re-Issue

14 Jul 2009 18:12



Bank of Ireland Group

Re-Issue from Treasury Stock to the Participants of the Long Term Performance Stock Plan 1999

Bank of Ireland announces that it has re-issued 6,733 units of Ordinary Stock of nominal value of €0.64 each from Treasury Stock to satisfy matching stock awards arising under the Long Term Performance Stock Plan (LTPSP) 1999.

Following the re-issue, Bank of Ireland holds 22,008,690 units of Ordinary Stock as Treasury Stock. The number of units of Ordinary Stock in issue is now 1,004,216,989 excluding Treasury Stock.

The number of units of Euro Preference Stock in issue is 3,026,598 and the number of units of Sterling Preference Stock in issue is 1,876,090.

Bank of Ireland has in issue 3,500,000,000 units of preference stock of €0.01 each and warrants which enable the holder to acquire 334,737,148 units of Ordinary Stock.

14 July 2009

Enquires:

John Clifford, Group Secretary

+353 1 6043400