Notice of AGM & Shareholder Documentation

26 March 2010

Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c.

·; Executive Chairman's Letter to Shareholders containing the Notice of the 2010 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") and setting out the business to be conducted at the AGM

·; Form of Proxy

·; Annual Financial Report, 2009

·; Shareholders Report, 2009

Copies of the above documents, posted to shareholders on 25th March 2010, are available on Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c.'s website www.aibgroup.com/investorrelations from today.

-ENDS-

For further information please contact:

David Schorman,

Assistant Secretary,

Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c.,

Bankcentre,

Dublin 4.

Tel: +353-1-772-1006