Director/PDMR Shareholding

Celtic PLC
03 January 2008


                                   CELTIC PLC

                             Director Shareholding

Celtic plc ('the Company') has been notified today, 3 January 2008, that Tom
Allison, a non-executive director of the Company, acquired 1,600,000 Ordinary
Shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company, at a price of 64 pence per
share on 31 December 2007. Mr Allison has also made notification under DTR
5.1.2R that his interests in the voting shares of the company have exceeded the
3% threshold.

Prior to the transactions Mr Allison was interested in 1.70% of the voting
rights in the Company, consisting of interests directly in 1,632,505 Ordinary
Shares of 1p each (1.58 % of voting rights) and indirectly in 125,000 Ordinary
Shares of 1p each (0.12 % of voting rights) calculated on the basis of the
issued voting capital announced at the end of November 2007.

Following the transactions, Mr Allison is interested in 3,357,505 Ordinary
Shares of 1p each representing 3.79% of the class and 3.26 % of the voting
rights in the Company. Mr Allison's interests consist of direct interests in his
name of 3,232,505 Ordinary Shares (3.65 % of the class and 3.14% of voting
rights) and indirect interests in the name of the Tom Allison Retirement Benefit
Scheme of 125,000 Ordinary Shares (0.14 % of the class and 0.12% of voting
rights).


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