Ryanair Holdings PLC Transaction in Own Shares (0766M)

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RNS Number : 0766M

Ryanair Holdings PLC

25 July 2017

Ryanair Holdings plc

Transaction in own shares

Ryanair Holdings plc (the "Company") today announces that on 25 July 2017 it purchased for cancellation a total of 565,000 ordinary shares of nominal value EUR0.006 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") as further detailed below.

 
                  Per Ordinary 
                   Share 
---------------  ------------- 
 Average price 
  paid            EUR18.1027 
---------------  ------------- 
 Highest price 
  paid            EUR18.3600 
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 Lowest price 
  paid            EUR17.7600 
---------------  ------------- 
 

These share purchases form part of the Company's existing share buy-back programme, details of which were announced on 31 May 2017.

In respect of this programme, which will operate until not later than 31 October 2017, Citigroup Global Markets Limited ("Citigroup") and J&E Davy ("Davy") will make trading decisions in relation to Ryanair's Ordinary Shares repurchased under the buy-back programme independently of, and uninfluenced by, Ryanair. Any such acquisitions will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with both Ryanair's general authority to repurchase Ordinary Shares, and Chapter 9 of the Listing Rules of the Irish Stock Exchange, the applicable laws and regulations of the Irish Stock Exchange and those provisions of Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes.

Following the cancellation of the Ordinary Shares repurchased the Company will have 1,198,728,455 Ordinary Shares in issue. To the extent that further Ordinary Shares are repurchased under the programme, these will also be cancelled.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a schedule of individual trades is available using the following link:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0766M_-2017-7-25.pdf

ENDS

Enquires:

Contact:

Neil Sorahan

Ryanair Holdings Plc

Tel: + 353 1 945 1212

This information is provided by RNS

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