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Wed 06 Jun 2007Airline spends €40m on share buybackRyanair yesterday confirmed it had spent almost €40 million buying back as many as eight million of its own shares.The airline paid just under €4.95 each for the shares, which represent about 0.5 per cent of the total issued share capital. The stock purchased by Ryanair in the buyback exercise will be cancelled.