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Allied Irish Banks PLC22 April 2008 Standard Form TR-1Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/ECFinancial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC(i) 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares towhich voting rights are attached (ii): Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box orboxes): (x) an acquisition or disposal of voting rights ( ) an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result inthe acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached ( ) an event changing the breakdown of voting rights 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation(iii): Dermot Gleeson / Chairman of Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)(iv): CD availableon request showing shareholder names and details.(c. 350 shareholders perResolution) 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed orreached(v): 20 April 2008 6. Date on which issuer notified; 21st April 2008 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 26% - See AppendixA. 8. Notified details:A) Voting rights attached to sharesClass/type of Situation previous to the Resulting situation after the triggering transactionshares (if Triggering transaction (vi) (vii)possible using Number of Number of Number of Number of voting rights % of votingthe ISIN CODE) Shares(viii) Voting rights shares(x) (xi) rights (ix) Direct Direct(xii) Indirect Direct Indirect (xiii)Ordinary shares 120,000 120,000 120,000 120,000 Note 1 0.013% 27%of Euro 0.32each SUBTOTAL A(based onaggregate votingrights) Note 1 : See Appendix A, showing the number and % of discretionary votingrights, by Resolution. B) Financial InstrumentsResulting situation after the triggering transaction(xiv)Type of financial Expiration Date Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of voting rightsinstrument (xv) Period/ Date(xvi) rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted SUBTOTAL B (in Nil Nil relation to all expiration dates) Total (A+B) number of voting rights % of voting rightsSee Appendix A 27% 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the votingrights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable(xvii): SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE 10. Name of Proxy Holder : CD available on request showing shareholdernames and details.(c. 350 shareholders per Resolution). 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold : see AppendixA 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights : as ofclose of Annual General Meeting of Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c.on 22nd April 2008. 13. Additional Information : Annex to the standard form TR-1 (xviii) a) Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notificationobligation:Full name (including legal form Dermot Gleeson,for legal entities) Chairman, Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. ...................................................................Contact address (registered Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4,office for legal entities) Ireland..........................................................................................Phone number 01 - 6600311Other useful information (at ....................................................least legal representative forlegal persons) b) Identity of the notifier, if applicable(xix):Full name Tanya BarryContact address Assistant Secretary, Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.Phone number 01 - 6412348Other useful information (e.g. functional relationshipwith the person or legal entity subject to thenotification obligation) c) Additional information Schedule of Registered Holders CD available on request showing names and details of shareholders who appointedthe Chairman / Dermot Gleeson as their proxy, with discretion on how to vote,for the Annual General Meeting of Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (c. 350shareholders per Resolution) Appendix AALLIED IRISH BANKS, p.l.c. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 22 April 2008Total Discretionary Votes received in favour of Chairman and Dermot Gleeson Chairman Dermot Total Number of % of voting Gleeson Shares rights* 1 To receive the Report and 245,289,133 5,933 245,295,066 26.71 Accounts 2 To declare the Final Dividend 245,256,008 5,933 245,261,941 26.70 To re-appoint the following Directors: 3 Mr. Kieran Crowley 245,342,468 5,933 245,348,401 26.71(a) 3 Mr. Colm Doherty 245,363,261 5,933 245,369,194 26.72(b) 3 Mr. Donal Forde 245,434,538 5,933 245,440,471 26.72(c) 3 Mr. Dermot Gleeson 245,353,953 5,933 245,359,886 26.71(d) 3 Mr. Stephen L. Kingon 245,411,010 5,933 245,416,943 26.72(e) 3 Ms Anne Maher 245,358,612 5,933 245,364,545 26.72(f) 3 Mr. Daniel O'Connor 245,367,538 5,933 245,373,471 26.72(g) 3 Mr. John O'Donnell 245,635,283 34,617 245,669,900 26.75(h) 3 Mr. Sean O'Driscoll 245,637,702 34,617 245,672,319 26.75(i) 3 Mr. David Pritchard 245,653,384 34,617 245,688,001 26.75(j) 3 Mr. Eugene J Sheehy 245,592,340 34,617 245,626,957 26.74(k) 3 Mr. Bernard Somers 245,655,842 34,617 245,690,459 26.75(l) 3 Mr. Michael J. Sullivan 245,735,836 34,617 245,770,453 26.76(m) 3 Mr. Robert G. Wilmers 245,701,081 34,617 245,735,698 26.76(n) 3 Ms. Jennifer Winter 245,707,885 34,617 245,742,502 26.76(o) 4 To authorise the Directors to 246,255,475 34,617 246,290,092 26.82 determine the remuneration of the Auditor 5 To renew authority for the 245,720,244 34,617 245,754,861 26.76 Company to make market purchases of the Company' s shares 6 To set the price range for the 245,751,344 34,682 245,786,026 26.76 off-market re-issue of treasury shares 7 To renew the Directors' authority 245,703,738 34,617 245,738,355 26.76 to allot shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis 8 To authorise the Company to 245,700,991 34,617 245,735,608 26.76 convey information by electronic means 9 To amend the Articles of 245,929,269 34,617 245,963,886 26.78 Association 10 To appoint Mr. Niall Murphy a 245,608,518 5,400 245,613,918 26.74 Director * based on Issued Share Capital of 918,435,570 This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of The Irish Stock Exchange -------------------------- (i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer andto be filed with the competent authority. (ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another methodfor identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable andaccurate. (iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) thenatural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising votingrights in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC; (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in Article 10 (a) of thatDirective, or (d) the holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire sharesalready issued to which voting rights are attached, as appropriate. In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Article 10of that Directive, the following list is provided as indication of the personswho should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity that acquires the votingrights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the naturalperson or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration thevoting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral,provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares itsintention of exercising them, and natural person or legal entity lodging thecollateral under these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest inshares if that person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rightsattached to the shares and the natural person or legal entity who is disposingof the voting rights when the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided ithas a notification duty at an individual level under Article 9, under letters(a) to (d) of Article 10 of that Directive or under a combination of any ofthose situations, the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the votingrights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and thedepositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rightsat his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity that controls the votingrights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at hisdiscretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holderallowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion. (iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h)of Directive 2004/109/EC. This should be the full name of the shareholder who isthe counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Article 10of that Directive unless the holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5%of the total number of voting rights. (v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case ofan on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; inthe case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement. The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which theacquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. Forpassive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.[DEL: :DEL] (vi) Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previousnotification. In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction wasbelow 3%, please state "below 3%". (vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is below 3%. For the case provided for in Article 10(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC, thereshould be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the agreement unlessa party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This appliesupon entering into, introducing changes to or terminating an agreement. (viii) To be used in Member States where applicable. (ix) Direct and indirect. (x) To be used in Member States where applicable. (xi) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rightsattached "direct holding" and voting rights "indirect holding", please split thevoting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns - ifthere is no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank. (xii) Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party(Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC). (xiii) Voting rights held by the notifying party independently ofany holding of shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC). (xiv) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is below 3%. (xv) Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e.the date when right to acquire shares ends. (xvi) If the financial instrument has such a period - please specifythis period - for example once every 3 months starting from (date). (xvii) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlledundertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification shouldalso include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by eachcontrolled undertaking, [DEL:i:DEL]nsofar as individually the controlledundertaking holds 3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parentundertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlledundertaking. (xviii) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority. (xix) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf ofthe shareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in Articles 10and 13 of Directive 2004/109/EC This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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