Providence Resources plc : Miscellaneous

27^th April 2012

RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

At the Extraordinary General Meeting of Providence Resources P.l.c., held on Friday, 27^th April 2012 to approve the Placing of 13,148,930 new Ordinary Shares (as originally announced on 2^nd April 2012), the special resolution considered and voted upon by the shareholders was approved. The full text of the resolution was included in the notice of the meeting.

Commenting after the Extraordinary General Meeting, Mr. Tony O'Reilly, CEO, stated:

"I am delighted with the passing of today's resolution as it  provides capital to allow the Company to redeem the convertible bond as well as providing additional capital to finance the ongoing multi-basin drilling programme of oil and gas prospects, offshore Ireland and onshore UK.  I would like to express our thanks to shareholders for their support of this drilling programme,  which has already far exceeded expectations with the very positive results from the recent Barryroe well, the first well of the six well programme".

Contacts:

Providence Resources P.l.c. Tony O'Reilly	Tel: [phone]
Powerscourt Rob Greening / Lisa Kavanagh	Tel: [phone]
Murray Consultants Pauline McAlester / Pauline Dooley	Tel: [phone]
Cenkos Securities Plc Adrian Hargrave / Nick Wells	Tel: [phone]
J&E Davy Eugenee Mulhern / Stephen Barry	Tel: + 353 (0)1 679 6363
Liberum Simon Atkinson/Clayton Bush	Tel: [phone]

ABOUT PROVIDENCE
Providence Resources Plc is an Irish based oil and gas exploration company whose shares are traded on the London AIM market and on Dublin's ESM market. Providence's portfolio of production, appraisal and exploration assets includes licence interests in Ireland (offshore) and the United Kingdom (onshore & offshore). In 2011, Providence, along with its partners, commenced a circa $500 million multi-year drilling programme on a number of exploration and development wells in 6 different basins offshore Ireland. This programme represents the largest drilling campaign ever carried out offshore Ireland.

Please visit our website www.providenceresources.com.

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