The carnage on Ireland's roads continued, with four more deaths in separate accidents.
The driver of a minibus died after his vehicle collided with a car outside Mullingar in Co Westmeath this afternoon.
The incident occurred at Lough Ennell on the N4 Mullingar to Longford road shortly before 1pm.
A 19-year-old woman died in hospital after a three-car collision in Limerick shortly after midnight.
She was a passenger in one of the vehicles which crashed on the Ballysimon Road in the city, said Gardai.
In Co Sligo a 38-year-old man was killed just before midnight when the car he was driving left the road at Carrownurlar, Enniscrone, crashed through a gate and ended up in a field.
The man, who was travelling alone, was taken to the Sligo General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Earlier a 64-year-old man died after an accident at Claremorris, Co Mayo. The elderly pedestrian, named as Austin Carney who lived locally, died when he was hit by a van on the Ballyhaunis Road.
The number of people killed on the roads since the start of the year now stands at 263.
