RE: Rule 9.6.4

FBD Holdings PLC
19 September 2005

FBD Holdings Plc



19th September 2005











                                 RE: RULE 9.6.4







FBD Holdings plc wishes to announce that on the 19th September 2005, it
transferred 30,000 treasury shares to employees who exercised share options.



The shares were transferred at a price of €4.60.



After the transaction, the Company holds 1,189,900 treasury shares and the total
number of shares in issue, less the total number of treasury shares held by the
Company, amounts to 38,071,306.









Yours faithfully,







________________

David J. Flynn

Secretary











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