Board Appointment

DCC PLC
29 September 2003



                      Bernard Somers joins the Board of DCC

                                                              29 September 2003


DCC plc, the business support services group, announces the co-option of Mr
Bernard Somers as a non-executive director of the Company with effect from 29
September 2003.

Mr Somers, aged 54, is a non-executive director of Independent News & Media plc,
Ardagh plc and is Chairman of eTel Group, a Central European telecommunications
company. He is a former director of the Central Bank of Ireland.

Mr Somers is a graduate of University College Dublin and a chartered accountant.
He is the founder of Somers & Associates which has built a substantial practice
in corporate restructuring and he has handled many of the larger restructurings
in Ireland. He has also been an investor in and a director of several start-up
companies.


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