Bank of Ireland Group PLC BOI Extension of Post Office partnership agreement (9990N)

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Bank of Ireland Group PLC

27 September 2019

Bank of Ireland Group plc (the "Group")

Extension of Post Office partnership agreement

27 September 2019

Today, the Group announces that it has, through Bank of Ireland (UK) plc, extended its long term financial services partnership with the UK Post Office to a minimum end of 2026.

The extension of the Group's longstanding partnership with the Post Office has further enhanced alignment of both parties, to drive mutual benefits, and is consistent with the Group's strategy to improve returns in our UK business.

The partnership will continue to focus on providing an exclusive Post Office branded range of leading savings, mortgages and personal loans with c.2.1 million Post Office customers in the UK. The Group and the UK Post Office also have a highly successful 50/50 joint venture, First Rate Exchange Services, which continues to be the largest provider of consumer foreign exchange in the UK with a market share of 24%.

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For further information please contact:

Bank of Ireland

Andrew Keating, Group Chief Financial Officer [phone]

Darach O'Leary, Head of Group Investor Relations [phone]

Damien Garvey , Head of Group External Communications and Public Affairs [phone]

Forward Looking Statement

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Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others: statements regarding the Group's near term and longer term future capital requirements and ratios, level of ownership by the Irish Government, loan to deposit ratios, expected impairment losses, the level of the Group's assets, the Group's financial position, future income, business strategy, projected costs, margins, future payment of dividends, the implementation of changes in respect of certain of the Group's pension schemes, estimates of capital expenditures, discussions with Irish, United Kingdom, European and other regulators and plans and objectives for future operations. Such forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, and hence actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

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