John Kennedy, a non-executive director at the Irish building materials firm CRH has taken a stake in the firm, buying about €17,400 (£14,850) worth of shares.
He paid €17.42 each for 636 shares, €17.40 for 296 shares and €17.43 for 68 shares yesterday.
The purchase represents his only holding in the company.
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Kennedy is the chairman of Wellstream Holdings, a FTSE 250-listed supplier of flexible pipelines to the oil industry.
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