Two people have died following separate road collsions in Co Dublin and Mayo.
In Dublin, a man was killed when the car he was driving collided with a pole on the N81 at Blessington Road, Tallaght, shortly after 4.30pm this evening.
The road has been closed and motorists are being diverted through Tallaght village onto the Glenview Roundabout.
Earlier this morning a 22-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Co Mayo.
A Garda spokesman said the car, in which the dead woman was a passenger, left the road and ended up in a field at Eachleim on the Erris peninsula near Blacksod at around 5.30am
Two men, the driver of the car and another passenger, were injured in the crash and were taken to Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar.
Their injuries are not understood to be life threatening.