Share Issue/Capital Change • May 8, 2025
Share Issue/Capital Change
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At the Annual General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held on 8 May 2025 at the at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) Conference Centre, Sandyford Road, Dublin 16, D16 X8C3, Ireland, the following resolutions were passed as special business:
"That the Directors of the Company be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to allot relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014) in accordance with the powers, provisions and limitations in Article 9(b) of the Articles of Association of the Company provided that the sum of the nominal value of all allotments made pursuant to this authority shall not exceed €3,287,488, representing one third of the nominal value of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.
To the extent provided in Article 9(b) of the Articles of Association of the Company, this authority shall expire at the close of business on the earlier of the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2026 or 8 August 2026."
"That subject to the approval of Resolution 8 in the Notice of this meeting, the Directors be and are hereby authorised to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014) for cash in accordance with the powers, provisions and limitations in Article 9(c)(i) and (ii) of the Articles of Association of the Company provided that the sum of the nominal value of all allotments made pursuant to this authority in accordance with subparagraph (ii) of Article 9(c) and all treasury shares (as defined in Section 106 of the Companies Act 2014) re-issued while this authority remains operable shall not exceed an aggregate nominal value of €491,873 (9,837,460 Ordinary Shares) representing approximately five per cent of the nominal value of the issued ordinary share capital."
To the extent provided in Article 9(c) of the Articles of Association of the Company, this authority shall expire at the close of business on the earlier of the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2026 or 8 August 2026."
"That, the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (as defined by section 7 of the Companies Act 2014) be and are hereby generally authorised to purchase on a securities market (within the meaning of Section 1072 of the Companies Act 2014) from time to time shares of any class in the Company up to a maximum number of shares equal to ten per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital at the date of the passing of this resolution and provided further that purchases of shares will be limited to a maximum price which will not exceed the higher of:
and shall be limited to a minimum price which will not be less than the par value of the shares at the time the purchase is made.
This authority shall expire at the close of business on the earlier of the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2026 or 8 August 2026 save that the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries may before such expiry make a contract of purchase which would or might be executed wholly or partly after the expiry of this authority."
"That, for the purposes of Sections 109 and/or Section 1078 of the Companies Act 2014, the re-issue price range at which any treasury shares (as contemplated by the said Section 1078) for the time being held by the Company may be re-issued off-market shall be as follows:
For the purposes of this resolution, the expression "Appropriate Price" shall mean the average of five amounts resulting from determining whichever of the following {(i), (ii) or (iii) specified below} in relation to shares of the class of which such treasury shares is to be re-issued shall be appropriate in respect of each of the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the treasury share is re-issued, as determined from information published in the Official List of the London Stock Exchange reporting the business done on each of these five business days:-
and if there shall be only a bid (but not an offer) or an offer (but not a bid) price reported, or if there shall not be any bid or offer price reported, for any particular day then that day shall not count as one of the said five business days for the purposes of determining the Appropriate Price. If the means of providing the foregoing information as to dealings and prices by reference to which the Appropriate Price is to be determined is altered or is replaced by some other means, then the Appropriate Price shall be determined on the basis of the equivalent information published by the relevant authority in relation to dealings on the London Stock Exchange. This authority shall expire at the close of business on the earlier of the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2026 or 8 August 2026."
(Resolution No. 11)
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