Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
05 November 2004


                          McBride plc ('the Company')
                             Purchase of own shares


McBride plc announces that on 4 November 2004 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 100,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 154
pence per share.




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