Director/PDMR Sharehldg-Amend

Fairpoint Group PLC
14 April 2008


Fairpoint Group plc ('Fairpoint' or 'the Company')

Correction - Director's Dealings

On 27 March 2008, the Company announced that on 25 March 2008, Mr CS Mindenhall,
a non-Executive director of the Company, bought 12,000 ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company at an average price of approximately 89.3p per share. The
average price paid was incorrectly stated and was in fact approximately 86.3p
per share. The full corrected text of the announcement is detailed below.

Fairpoint Group plc ('Fairpoint' or 'the Company')

Director's Dealings

Fairpoint announces that, on 25 March 2008, Mr CS Mindenhall, a non-Executive
director of the Company, bought 12,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company
at an average price of approximately 86.3p per share. Following this purchase Mr
Mindenhall has an interest in 1,788,854 shares, representing approximately 4.2%
of the Company's issued share capital.


Enquiries:

Fairpoint Group plc
Andrew Redmond, Chief Executive Officer             0845 296 0100
Andy Heath, Finance Director                        0845 296 0200

Financial Dynamics
Ed Gascoigne-Pees                                   020 7269 7132
Nick Henderson                                      020 7269 7114

Numis Securities                                    020 7260 1000
Chris Wilkinson
Lee Aston


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