CDG Conroy Diam&Gld

RNS Number:0585X
Conroy Diamonds & Gold PLC
30 March 2004



                   CONROY STRENGTHENS BOARD WITH APPOINTMENT
                              OF EXPERIENCED MINER


Michael Power Brings 30 Years Mining Expertise, Much Of It In Gold
As AIM-listed Conroy Diamonds and Gold plc moves closer to achieving its
objective of establishing economic gold deposits on its Irish licences, the
company has strengthened its Board with the appointment of Mr Michael Power as
non-executive director.

Mr Power is an engineer with over 30 years' industry experience, much of it in
gold. During this period he held various senior positions in the industry,
including Vice-President - Corporate Development at Hemlo Gold Mines (now part
of Newmont Mining Corp) and Senior Analyst at Noranda Inc.

At Hemlo Gold, Mr Power was responsible for initiating, assessing, recommending
and negotiating the acquisition of gold mining assets. He played an important
role in the $C2 billion merger of Hemlo andBattle Mountain in 1996.

As Senior Analyst for Noranda, Mr Power was responsible for assessing and
negotiating acquisition opportunities and related investments for the Group.

Prior to that, as senior evaluation engineer for the Group, he was responsible
for the preparation of property evaluation and feasibility studies for a variety
of mineral projects ranging from exploration targets to operating mines.

Currently, Mr Power is a director of several other mining companies where his
responsibilities have included a number of successful funding initiatives. He is
also a director of the Ireland-Canada Chamber of Commerce.

Welcoming Mr Powers' appointment, chairman, Professor Richard Conroy, said his
wealth of experience in the miningindustry, especially in the assessment and
development of gold projects, is particularly appropriate as the company moves
into the all-important assessment and evaluation of its Irish licences.

Conroy holds prospecting licences over 1500km2 of theLongford-Down Massif.
Within a 60km2 section of this area known as the Armagh-Monaghan Gold Belt, it
has identified two gold deposits and two other zones of gold mineralisation as
well as many other areas with strongly anomalous gold-in-soil values.Some 40km
to the south-west, at Slieve Glah in County Cavan, the company has also outlined
a second area of highly anomalous gold-in-soil values, with gold identified in
trenching. This area also lies within the Massif, as does the intervening tract
of highly prospective ground, all of which falls within Conroy's licence area.

Conroy recently appointed SRK Consulting (UK) to prepare the first mineral
resource estimate of the company's Irish gold properties, marking the project's
transition from pure exploration to assessment and evaluation.

Micheal Edward Power, age 65, holds or has held the following directorships or
partnerships within the last five years.

Current Directorships                  Past Directorships
Great Lakes Nickel Inc.                River Gold Mines Limited
International Graphite Inc.            Western Quebec Mines Limited
Moydow Mines International Inc.


Further Information:

www.conroydiamondsandgold.com

Professor Richard Conroy, Conroy Diamondsand Gold P.l.c.. Tel: -353-1-661-8958
Ron Marshman/John Greenhalgh, City of London PR Limited. Tel: 44 20-7628-5518
Don Hall, Hall Communications Tel: 353- 1 660 9377



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