Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
06 May 2005


                          McBride plc ('the Company')

                             Purchase of own shares



McBride plc announces that on 5 May 2005 it purchased through Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein 200,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 147 pence per
share.




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