Treasury Stock Re-Issue

18 Sep 2008 10:58

Bank of Ireland Group

Re-Issue from Treasury Stock to Trustees of Staff Stock Schemes

Bank of Ireland announces that it has re-issued 123,884 units of Ordinary Stock of nominal value of €0.64 each from Treasury Stock to the Trustees of the Stock Incentive Plan, UK at €4.51 per unit.

Following the re-issue, Bank of Ireland holds 22,014,234 units of Ordinary Stock as Treasury Stock. The number of units of Ordinary Stock in issue is now 1,004,211,445 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.

18 September 2008

Enquires:

John Clifford, Group Secretary

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