Transaction in own Shares

Grafton Group PLC
25 September 2007

Grafton Group plc



Grafton Group plc ('the Company') announces that the Company purchased for
cancellation 500,000 Grafton units on 25 September 2007 at an average price of
€8.2125 per unit.



Following the above purchase, the Company holds 500,000 units in treasury and
has 238,340,512 units in issue (excluding treasury units).



Colm O Nuallain

Finance Director

Grafton Group plc

Ph: [phone]



This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of

                           The Irish Stock Exchange.






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