Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
03 May 2005


                          McBride plc ('the Company')

                             Purchase of own shares


McBride plc announces that on 29 April 2005 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 250,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 146
pence per share.

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