Directorate Change

CRH PLC
25 July 2007


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                                                                    25 July 2007


                        CRH ANNOUNCES BOARD APPOINTMENT

The Board of CRH plc is pleased to announce the co-option to the Board today,
25th July 2007, of Professor Utz-Hellmuth Felcht as a non-executive Director.

Prof. Felcht (60), who is a German national, was until May of last year Chief
Executive of Degussa GmbH, Germany's third largest chemical company, with
operations on all five continents and sales in 2006 of approximately €11
billion.  He started his career at Hoechst in 1977 and was a main Board Director
of that company from 1991 to 1998.  Between 1998 and 2000 he was Chief Executive
of the chemical company SKW Trostberg AG which merged with Degussa-Huls in 2001
to form Degussa.

Prof. Felcht is on the Board of Ciba AG and is a partner in the private equity
group One Equity Europe GmbH.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of Hapag
Lloyd and of the supervisory board of SGL Carbon AG. He holds a PhD from
Kaiserslautern University and Honorary Professorships from Munich University and
from Jilin University in China.

Contact CRH at Dublin 404 1000 ([phone])

Liam O'Mahony             Chief Executive
Myles Lee                 Finance Director
Eimear O'Flynn            Head of Investor Relations
Maeve Carton              Group Controller


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