Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
18 April 2005


                          McBride plc ('the Company')
                             Purchase of own shares



McBride plc announces that on 15 April 2005 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 200,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 150
pence per share.





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