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Davy Corporate Finance Ltd16 March 2007 FORM 8.1/8.3 IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL Lodge with the Irish Stock Exchange (Company Announcements Office) (which will publicise) and the Panel. Use separate form for each class of securities in which dealings have been made. Date of Disclosure: 16 March 2007 DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 8.1(a), 8.1(b)(I) and 8.3 OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL ACT 1997, (TAKEOVER) RULES, 1997 Date of Dealing: 15 March 2007 and 16 March 2007 Dealing in Irish Continental Group plc (1) Class of Securities (e.g. ordinary shares) Units (ComprisingRedeemable Shares) (2)Amount bought Amount sold Price per unit •15 March 2007:800,000 N/A 19.2519,102 19.2525,000 19.2530,898 19.256,000 19.255,000 19.255,000 19.258,000 19.251,000 19.254,000 19.2512,000 19.25262,500 19.50 16 March 2007:28,000 19.50118,804 19.50 (3) Resultant total of the same class owned or controlled (and percentageof class) 1,325,304 Units, representing 5.64% of the existing issued share capital ofIrish Continental Group plc (4) Party making disclosure Davy Corporate Finance Limited (5) EITHER (a) Name of purchaser One Fifty OneCapital Limited OR (b) If dealing for discretionary client(s), name offund management Organisation (6) Reason for disclosure (a) (I) (II) (b) Rule 8.3 (i.e. disclosure because of ownership or controlof 1% or more of the class of relevant securities dealt in) Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (4) above___________________________ (Also print name of signatory) Des Carville Davy Corporate Finance Telephone and extension number+353 1 679 63 63 Enquiries: James Morrissey, Fleishman Hillard Saunders, ph: 086 255 0487 Page 2 of 4 FORM 8.1/8.3 continued Note 1. Specify owner, not nominee or vehicle company. If relevant, also identify controller of owner, e.g. where anowner normally acts on instructions of controller Note 2. Disclosure might be made for more than one reason; if so, state all reasons. Note 3. Specify which offeror if there is more than one. Note 4. When an arrangement exists with an offeror, with the offeree company or with an associate of any offeror or of the offeree company in relation to relevant securities, details of such arrangement must be disclosed, as required byRule 8.7. Note 5. It may be necessary, particularly when disclosing derivative transactions, to append a sheet to this disclosure form so that all relevant information can be given. Note 6. In the case of an average price bargain, each underlying trade should be disclosed. Note 7. Unless otherwise stated, references to Rules are to Rules in Part B of the Rules. Note 8. 'Stock Exchange'; see definition in Rule 2.1(a) of Part A. For full details of disclosure requirements, see Rule 8. If in doubt, consult the Panel Page 3 of 4 FORM 8.1/8.3 continued DEFINITION OF ASSOCIATE A person is deemed by Rule 2.2 in Part A of the Rules to be an 'associate' of an offeror or an offeree (as the case maybe) if that person: (a) is the holding company, a subsidiary or a subsidiary of the holding company, of the offeror or the offeree; (b) is an associated company of the offeror, of the offeree or of an associate of the offeror or of the offeree described in (a) (for this purpose ownership or control of 20% or more of the equity share capital of a company is regarded as the test of associated company status); (c) is a company of which the offeror, the offeree or an associate of the offeror or the offeree described in (a) or (b) is an associated company; (d) is a bank or a financial or other professional adviser (including a stockbroker) which is acting in relation to the offer or possible offer concerned for the offeror or offeree or for an associate of the offeror or offeree described in (a), (b) or (c) (not being a bank which is engaged only in the provision to the offeror, the offeree or such associate, as the case may be, of normal commercial banking services or in such activities in connectionwith the offer as confirming that cash is available, handling acceptances and other registration work), provided that, in case of an adviser which is a partnership, only those partners and professional staff who are actively engaged in relation to the offer or who are customarily engaged in the affairs of the relevant client or who have been engaged in those affairs within the period of two years prior to the commencement of the relative offer period shall be deemed to be associates of the offeror or the offeree (as the case may be); (e) is a person controlling, controlled by, or under the same control as*, an associate of the offeror or offeree described in (d); (f) Is (i) a director of the offeror, the offeree or any associate of the offeror or the offeree described in (a), (b) or (c); (ii) the spouse, parent, brother, sister or child of such a director; (iii) the trustee ofa trust (including a discretionary trust) of which such a director or any spouse, parent, brother, sister or child of such a director is a beneficiary or potential beneficiary; or (iv) a company controlled by one or more of directors, such members of their families and the trustees of all such trusts; (g) is a trustee of any pension scheme (other than an industry-wide scheme) in which the offeror, the offeree or any associate of the offeror or the offeree described in (a), (b) or (c) participates; Page 4 of 4 FORM 8.1/8.3 continued(h) is a collective investment scheme or other person the investments of which the offeror or the offeree or any associate of the offeror or offeree manages on a discretionary basis, in respect of the relevant investment accounts; (i) owns or controls, or together with one or more other persons acting in concert with him or her owns or controls, 5% or more of any class of relevant securities (as described in paragraphs (a) to (d) in Rule 8.9) of the offero IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL Lodge with the Irish Stock Exchange (Company Announcements Office) (which will publicise) and the Panel. Use separate form for each class of securities in which dealings have been made. This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of the Irish Stock Exchange. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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