MICHAEL D. BUCKLEY is 63, is a member of the Executive and Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committees and has been a director since 2003. Mr. Buckley retired as group chief executive and as a director of AIB on June 30, 2005. He was a director of AIB since 1995. Mr. Buckley was a former managing director of the AIB Poland Division and of the AIB Capital Markets Division. He is a director of M&T Bank and a member of its Executive and Trust and Investment Committees. Mr. Buckley is also a non-executive director of DCC plc, a business support services company quoted on the Dublin and London stock exchanges. He is also a non-executive director of Bradford & Bingley Group, a specialist United Kingdom bank and a non-executive director of Bramdean Alternatives Ltd., an investment fund, both of which are quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Buckley is a senior advisor to a number of privately held companies, sits on the board of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Cork.