Holding(s) in Company (5248E)

TIDMIPM

RNS Number : 5248E

Irish Life & Permanent Grp HldgsPLC

07 April 2011

Standard Form TR-1 Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/EC Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached

Irish Life & Permanent Group Holdings plc.

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

[x] an acquisition or disposal of voting rights

[ ] an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

[ ] an event changing the breakdown of voting rights

[ ] Other

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

Allianz Global Investors Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH,

Mainzer Landstra<BETA>e 11 - 13, 60329 Frankfurt/M., Germany

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

Date of transaction - 1(st) April 2011

Date of settlement - 6(th) April 2011

6. Date on which issuer notified;

6(th) April 2011

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached

Crossing of 4%

8. Notified details:

 
 A) Voting rights attached to shares 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 Class/type 
  of shares 
  (if possible   Situation previous 
  using the       to the Triggering        Resulting situation after the triggering 
  ISIN CODE)      transaction               transaction 
--------------  ------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
                              Number 
                 Number        of Voting   Number            Number of voting                 % of voting 
                  of Shares    rights       of shares         rights                           rights 
--------------  -----------  -----------  ----------------  -------------------------------  ------------------ 
                                           Direct            Direct                Indirect   Direct   Indirect 
--------------  -----------  -----------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------  -------  --------- 
 IE00B59NXW72    11,251,376   11,251,376        10,832,047            10,832,047              3.98% 
--------------  -----------  -----------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------  -------  --------- 
 SUBTOTAL A 
  (based on 
  aggregate 
  voting 
  rights)        11,251,376   11,251,376        10,832,047            10,832,047                       3.98% 
--------------  -----------  -----------  ----------------  -------------------------------  ------------------ 
 
 
 B) Financial Instruments 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 Type of      Expiration   Exercise/Conversion   Number of voting      % of voting 
 financial     Date         Period/ Date         rights that may be     rights 
 instrument                                      acquired if the 
                                                 instrument is 
                                                 exercised/converted 
-----------  -----------  --------------------  --------------------  ------------ 
 
 
                           SUBTOTAL B 
                            (in relation 
                            to all expiration 
                            dates) 
                          --------------------  --------------------  ------------ 
 
 
                number of voting 
 Total (A+B)     rights            % of voting rights 
-------------  -----------------  ------------------- 
                10,832,047         3.98% 
-------------  -----------------  -------------------

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

10. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold [number] voting rights as of [date]. N/A

11. Additional information:

a) Allianz Global Investors Kapitalanalgegesellschaft mbH (AllianzGI) is an investment company within the meaning of Sec. 6 of the German Investment Act ("Investmentgesetz" / "InvG"). AllianzGI KAG establishes, administrates and manages mutual funds open to the public as well as Special Funds ("Spezial-Investmentvermogen") limited to institutional investors within the meaning of Sec. 2 para. 3 InvG.

Direct shareholdings reported above originate from holdings in public funds as well as Special Funds managed by AllianzGI

Details of the situation previous to the triggering transaction:

Number of Shares held in public funds (direct): 8,835,942

Number of Shares held in Special Funds (direct): 2,415,434

Details of the situation after the triggering transaction:

Number of Shares held in public funds (direct): 8,585,942

Number of Shares held in Special Funds (direct): 2,246,105

Calculation is bases on a total number of voting rights of 272,380,589.

Done at: Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 6 April 2011.

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