Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
18 October 2005


                          McBride plc ('the Company')

                             Purchase of own shares

McBride plc announces that on 17 October 2005 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 250,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 152
pence per share.



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