Holding(s) in Company

W.H. Ireland Group PLC
27 May 2005

                     W H Ireland Group plc ('the Company')



                            Notification of Interest



The Company has today been advised that Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust Plc
has decreased its material interest in the Company and no longer has a
notifiable interest in the ordinary share capital of the Company.



For further information please contact:

David W. Youngman               W.H. Ireland Group plc            0161 832 6644




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