RNS Number:4693J
Irish Continental Group PLC
01 April 2003


                            IRISH CONTINENTAL GROUP


                          STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT


Purchase of Own Shares

Irish Continental Group announces that it has made a purchase of its own
Ordinary Shares on the market as follows;

Date of Transaction : 31 March 2003

Number of Shares : 210,705 (two hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and five)
representing 0.85% of the previously issued shares

Price : The price paid was Euro7.80 per share


These shares will be cancelled.

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1 April 2003


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