Bank of Ireland Re-Issue from Treasury Stock to Trustees of Staff Stock Scheme

Bank of Ireland announces that on 23 August 2006 it re-issued from Treasury Stock 58,655 units of Ordinary Stock of nominal value of €0.64 each (Ordinary Stock) to the Trustees of the Stock Incentive Plan, UK (Partnership Stock) at €14.90 per unit.

Following the re-issue, Bank of Ireland holds 49,201,888 units of Ordinary Stock as Treasury Stock. The number of units of Ordinary Stock is now 975,913,601 excluding Treasury Stock.

The number of units of euro Preference Stock in issue is 3,026,598 and the number of units of Sterling Preference Stock in issue is 1,876,090.

24 August 2006

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