Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to a traffic accident in Dublin in which a 60-year-old pedestrian was fatally injured.
His death is one of three traffic accident fatalities in the Republic since Thursday.
A woman was killed and a man injured when a car crashed in Co Leitrim early yesterday. The woman, who was named as Ms Kathleen Daly (51), from Effrinagh, Kilclare, Co Leitrim, was a passenger in the vehicle which hit an embankment and turned over in a field at Effrinagh, about four miles north of Carrick-on-Shannon.
The driver of the vehicle, a man in his 50s was injured. They were taken to Sligo General Hospital.
In the Dublin accident the 60-year-old pedestrian, who lived locally, was knocked down by a car while crossing the road at the junction between Lower Gardiner Street and Summerhill Road on Thursday evening. He died at the Mater Hospital.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Gardaí at Fitzgibbon Street at (01) 6668400.
In Co Galway a 70-year-old motorist died when his car crashed into a wall in Ballinasloe, also on Thursday.
In a marine incident a Spanish fishing vessel recovered the badly decomposed body of a man while hauling in their nets about 32 miles south-west of Valentia Island, Co Kerry.
According to the Irish Coast Guard marine Rescue sub-centre in Valentia, the crew of the Cantabrico said the man was wearing fisherman's clothing of a red waterproof jacket and yellow leggings.