Holding(s) in Company
29 June 2010
Pursuant to its obligations under the Transparency (Directive 2004/109/EC)
Regulations 2007 ("The Regulations"), Irish Continental Group plc sets out below
details of a notification received under The Regulations.
Tom Corcoran
Company Secretary
Standard Form TR-1
Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/EC
Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC[i]
1.Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached[ii]: Irish Continental Group plc
2.Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
        [x] an acquisition or disposal of voting rights
        [ ] an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result
in the 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]: Invesco
 Ltd
4.Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)[iv]:
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or
reached[v]:
24 June  2010
6.Date on which issuer notified
      28 June 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Â 3%
8. Notified details:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|A) Voting rights attached to shares |
+------------+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
|Class/type |Situation previous to |Resulting situation after the triggering |
|of shares |the Triggering |transaction[vii] |
|(if possible|transaction[vi] | |
|using the +------------+----------+---------+--------------------------+---------------+
|ISIN CODE) |Number of |Number of |Number of|Number of voting |% of voting |
| |Shares[viii]|Voting |shares[x]|rights[xi] |rights |
| | |rights[ix]+---------+-----------+--------------+------+--------+
| | | |Direct |Direct[xii]|Indirect[xiii]|Direct|Indirect|
+------------+------------+----------+---------+-----------+--------------+------+--------+
|IE0033336516|Â Â Â Â Â Below |Â Â Â Â Â Below|Â Â Â Â |Â Â Â Â Â Â |Â Â Â Â Â 789,693 |Â Â Â Â Â Â | 3.16%|
| |3% |3% | | | | | |
+------------+------------+----------+---------+-----------+--------------+------+--------+
|SUBTOTAL A |Â Â Â Â Â Below |Â Â Â Â Â Below|Â Â Â Â | Â Â Â Â Â 789,693| Â Â Â Â Â 3.16%|
|(based on |3% |3% | | | |
|aggregate | | | | | |
|voting | | | | | |
|rights) | | | | | |
+------------+------------+----------+---------+--------------------------+---------------+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|B) Financial Instruments |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[xiv] |
+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
|Type of |Expiration |Exercise/Conversion |Number of voting |% of |
|financial |Date[xv] |Â Period/ Date[xvi] |rights that may be |voting |
|instrument | | |acquired if the |rights |
| | | |instrument is | |
| | | |exercised/converted | |
+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
|Â |Â |Â |Â |Â |
+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
|Â |Â |Â |Â |Â |
+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
 |SUBTOTAL B (in | | |
|relation to all | | |
|expiration dates) | | |
+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
+-------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
| Total (A+B) | number of voting rights | % of voting rights |
+-------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
| 789,693 | 789,693 | 3.16% |
+-------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
9.Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable[xvii]:
Invesco Asset Management S.A France & Invesco sset Management Ltd - 122,783
Invesco Asset Management Ltd & Invesco Asset Management Japan - 2,199
Invesco Asset Management (Japan) Ltd - 6,615
Invesco Asset Management ltd & Invesco Asset Management Ireland - 54,000
Invesco Asset Management Dublin - 25,549
Invesco Asset Management S.A France - 33,261
Invesco Asset Management Ltd & Invesco Advisers Inc. - 20,000
Invesco Asset Management Ltd - 89,839
Invesco Fund Management Ltd - 332,230
Invesco GT Management S.A - 1,745
Invesco Asset Management Ltd & Invesco GT Management Ltd - 101,472
10.In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold
[number] voting rights as of [date].
11.Additional information:
Done at [place] on [date].
     Annex to the standard form TR-1[xviii]
a)Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation:
Full name (including legal form for legal entities) Invesco Limited
Contact address (registered office for legal entities) Invesco Limited
30 Finsbury Square
London
EC2A 1AG
Phone number 0044 1491 417404
Other useful information (at least legal representative for
legal persons)
b)Identity of the notifier, if applicable[xix]:
Full name Noel Moynihan
Contact address Invesco Limited,
2nd Floor, Georges Quay House,
43 Townsend Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Phone number 00 353-1-439 8260
Other useful information (e.g. functional Head of Compliance
relationship with the person or legal entity
subject to the notification obligation)
c)Additional information
Notes to Form TR-1
[i]Â This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed
with the competent authority.
[ii]Â Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying
the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate.
[iii]Â This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the natural
person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights 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 that
Directive, or (d) the holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares
already issued to which voting rights are attached, as appropriate.
In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Article 10
of that Directive, the following list is provided as indication of the persons
who should be mentioned:
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the natural person or legal entity that acquires the voting rights and is
entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal
entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral, provided the person
or entity controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising
them, and natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these
conditions;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest in shares if that
person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the
shares and the natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting
rights when the life interest is created;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided it has 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 of those
situations, the controlled undertaking;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached
to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the
shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his
discretion;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the natural person or legal entity that controls the voting rights;
-in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 of that Directive,
the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and
the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter
to exercise the voting rights at his discretion.
[iv]Â 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 is the
counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Article 10 of
that Directive unless the holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5% of
the total number of voting rights.
[v]Â The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on
exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the
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 the
acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. For
passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.
[vi]Â Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification. In
case the situation previous to the triggering transaction was below 3%, please
state "below 3%".
[vii]Â If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying 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, there
should be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the agreement unless
a party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies
upon entering into, introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.
[viii]Â To be used in Member States where applicable.
[ix]Â Direct and indirect.
[x]Â To be used in Member States where applicable.
[xi]Â In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached "direct
holding" and voting rights "indirect holding", please split the voting rights
number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns - if there is no
combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.
[xii]Â Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party (Article 9 of
Directive 2004/109/EC).
[xiii]Â Voting rights held by the notifying party independently of any holding of
shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC).
[xiv]Â If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party
should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new
holding is below 3%.
[xv]Â Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e. the date when
right to acquire shares ends.
[xvi]Â If the financial instrument has such a period - please specify this period
- for example once every 3 months starting from [date].
[xvii]Â The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled
undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should
also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each
controlled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds
3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is
intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking.
[xviii]Â This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.
[xix]Â Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the
shareholder or the natural person/legal entity  referred to in Articles 10 and
13 of Directive 2004/109/EC
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