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Aer Lingus Announces New Director

The Board of Directors of Aer Lingus Group plc ("Aer Lingus"), the Irish low
cost, low fares airline, today (Friday, January 09th) wishes to announce the
appointment of Laurence Crowley as a Non-Executive Director of the Board with
immediate effect.

Laurence Crowley is Chairman of "Gaisce - The President's Award", the Gate
Theatre, The Middletown Centre for Autism, Ecocem Limited and Realex Payments.
He is also a member of the Board of the Economic and Social Research Institute,
the Advisory Board of the US-Ireland Alliance and a number of other companies

He previously served as Governor of the Bank of Ireland (where he completed his
term in 2005) and as Executive Chairman of the Michael Smurfit Graduate School
of Business at University College Dublin. He is also a past director of Elan
Corporation. Previously, he was a partner in KPMG Stokes Kennedy Crowley
Chartered Accountants, where he specialized in corporate restructuring and
insolvency.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin and is
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. In 2004, he was
conferred with an honorary Doctorate in Laws by the National University of
Ireland.

Enquiries:

Aer Lingus Group plc Tel: + 353 1 886 2000

Enda Corneille

Drury Communications Tel: +353 1 260 5000

Billy Murphy

Orla Benson

Powerscourt Tel: + 44 207 324 0493

Rory Godson

Victoria Palmer-Moore

The directors of Aer Lingus Group plc accept responsibility for the information
contained in this announcement. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the
directors of Aer Lingus Group plc (who have taken all reasonable care to ensure
that such is the case) the information contained in this announcement is in
accordance with the facts and does not omit anything likely to affect the import
of such information.

Goldman Sachs International, which is authorised and regulated in the United
Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Aer
Lingus Group plc and no one else in connection with the offer by Coinside
Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ryanair Holdings plc (the "Offer") and
will not be responsible to anyone other than Aer Lingus Group plc for providing
the protections afforded to customers of Goldman Sachs International or for
providing advice in relation to the Offer or the contents of this announcement.

Goodbody Corporate Finance, which is regulated in Ireland by the Financial
Regulator, is acting exclusively for Aer Lingus Group plc and no one else in
connection with the Offer and will not be responsible to anyone other than Aer
Lingus Group plc for providing the protections afforded to customers of Goodbody
Corporate Finance or for providing advice in relation to the Offer or the
contents of this announcement.

Any person who is a holder of one per cent. or more of any class of shares in
Aer Lingus Group plc or Ryanair Holdings plc may be required to make disclosures
pursuant to Rule 8.3 of the Irish Takeover Panel Act, 1997, Takeover Rules 2007
and 2008, as applied with amendments by the European Communities (Takeover Bids
(Directive 2004/25/EC)) Regulations 2006.

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