Purchase of Own Securities

Grafton Group PLC
31 December 2007

Grafton Group plc



Grafton Group plc ('the Company') announces that the Company purchased for
cancellation 2,000,000 Grafton Units on 31st December 2007 at an average price
of €5.55 per Unit.



Following the above purchase, the Company holds 500,000 Units in treasury and
has 229,954,517 Units in issue (excluding treasury Units).



Colm O Nuallain

Finance Director

Grafton Group plc

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