Bank of Ireland : Notification of Significant Shareholding - 99 KB

Standard Form TR-1

Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer andto the Central Bank of

Ireland)

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
   Bank of Ireland Group 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 [ ] An event changing the breakdown of voting rights [ ] Other (please specify):

3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation:

Name:	City and country of registered office (if applicable):
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.	Los Angeles, California 90071 U.S.A.

1. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): See Box 10
2. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

1. February 2020

1. Date on which issuer notified: 21 February 2020
2. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") and Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC") decreased below 3% of total voting rights - Aggregate of voting rights from shares
3. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

		% of voting rights
	% of voting rights	through financial	Total of both in %	Total number of
	attached to shares	instruments	voting rights of
	(9.A + 9.B)
	(total of 9.A)	(total of 9.B.1 +	issuer
		9.B.2)
Resulting situation
on the date on
which threshold	2.8821%	0.0000%	2.8821%	1,078,822,872
was crossed or
reached
Position of
previous	3.0941%	0.0000%	3.0941%
notification (if
applicable)

9. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of	Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
shares

ISIN code (if		Direct		Indirect	Direct		Indirect
possible)
Ordinary Shares			31,092,791		2.8821%
(ISIN:
IE00BD1RP616)
SUBTOTAL A			31,092,791		2.8821%
B 1: Financial Instruments according to Regulation 17(1)(a) of the Regulations
					Number of voting rights
Type of financial	Expiration	Exercise/	that may be acquired if		% of voting rights
instrument	date	Conversion Period	the instrument is
					exercised/converted.
N/A
			SUBTOTAL B.1

B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Regulation 17(1)(b) of the Regulations

Type of financial	Expiration	Exercise/	Physical or cash	Number of
Conversion	% of voting rights
instrument	date	settlement	voting rights
Period
N/A

SUBTOTAL B.2

10. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation

[ ] Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer.

[ X ] Fullchain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the

financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

	% of voting rights if it	% of voting rights through	Total of both if it equals
	financial instruments if it
Name	equals or is higher than	or is higher than the
equals or is higher than
	the notifiable threshold	notifiable threshold
	the notifiable threshold

The Capital Group

Companies, Inc.

Holdings by CG Management companies are set out below:

Capital Research and

Management Company1

1. 1. Wholly owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

2. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold [% and number] voting rights as of [date]
3. Additional information:

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC") and Capital Bank & Trust Company ("CB&T"). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that serves as investment manager to the American Funds family of mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, as well as individual and institutional clients. CRMC and its investment manager affiliates manage equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors and Capital World Investors. CRMC is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of four investment management companies ("CGII management companies"): Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sàrl and Capital International K.K. CGII management companies and CB&T primarily serve as investment managers to institutional and high net worth clients. CB&T is a U.S.-based investment management company that is a registered investment adviser and an affiliated federally chartered bank.

Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of Bank of Ireland Group plc for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.

Done at Dublin on 24 February 2020

Contact: Sarah McLaughlin, Group Secretary

Telephone: [phone]