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AIB Group PLC

22 March 2019

22 March 2019

AIB GROUP PLC

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

AIB Group plc (the "Company") announces the following appointment to the Board:

-- Ms Sandy Kinney Pritchard has been appointed to the role of Non-Executive Director with effect from 22 March 2019, and will succeed Ms Catherine Woods as Board Audit Committee Chair on her retirement from the Company later this year;

Richard Pym, Chairman of the Company, said: "We are delighted to welcome Sandy to AIB. Her diverse and extensive experience will greatly enhance the Boards experience and skills profile. Due to the planned retirements of some of our long serving Non-Executive Directors we have been working for some time on the Board succession plan. This announcement is the first stage of restructuring the Board to face this challenge."

Sandy is a UCD graduate, with a distinguished career across the financial services industry. She is an accountant, previously working as a senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and has held a number of Non-Executive Directorship roles, including at Irish Life and Permanent TSB Plc, Skipton Building Society, the FSCS, TSB Bank Plc and MBNA Ltd. Sandy is currently Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Credit Suisse (UK) Ltd and Non-Executive Chair of the Board of London & Country Mortgages Ltd.

The announcement is made in accordance with Rule 6.6.5 of Euronext Dublin's Listing Rules and Rule 9.6.11 of the London Stock Exchange's Listing Rules.

Sandy is a former Non-Executive Director of TSB Banking Group plc, from which she resigned on 10 December 2018, and also a former Non-Executive Director of Findel plc, from which she resigned on 28 August 2015.

The Company confirms that there are no other matters requiring disclosure under Rule 6.6.7 of Euronext Dublin's Listing Rules/Rule 9.6.13 of the London Stock Exchange's Listing Rules relating to the aforementioned individual.

-ENDS-

For further information, please contact:

 
Sarah McLaughlin             Niamh Hore                   Stephen O'Shea 
Group Company Secretary      Head of Investor Relations   Head of Media Relations 
AIB Bankcentre               AIB Bankcentre               AIB Bankcentre 
Dublin                       Dublin                       Dublin 
Tel: +353-1-6414489          Tel: +353-1-6411817          Tel: +353-1-7720456 
email:                       email:                       email: stephen.p.o'shea@aib.ie 
 sarah.j.mclaughlin@aib.ie    niamh.a.hore@aib.ie 
 

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March 22, 2019 06:30 ET (10:30 GMT)