Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
10 December 2004


                          McBride plc ('the Company')

                             Purchase of own shares



McBride plc announces that on 9 December 2004 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 100,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 146
pence per share.







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