Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
01 July 2005


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


McBride PLC ('the Company') announces that on 30 June 2005, it purchased through
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein 500,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation
at 150p per share.


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