The number of people killed on Irish roads so far this weekend has risen to six after a 70-year-old pedestrian was knocked down by a van in Athlone last night.
Ealier a motorcyclist was killed in a road crash in Co Meath.
The motorcyclist, believed to have been in his 20s, was killed when his motorbike collided with another vehicle on the road between Trim and Navan at around 5 p.m. yesterday evening.
A female pillion passenger was injured in the crash.
In the north a man in his late 20s was killed in an accident in Castlewellan, Co Down.
The accident happened last night and no other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Three other people died in separate road traffic incidents earlier on Saturday. In Co Clare, gardai investigating a fatal crash on the main Ennis to Limerick Road, in which a 68-year-old man died, have arrested a man in his 30s in connection with the incident.
He is due to appear at Ennis District Court on Friday next.
Elsewhere, a 45-year-old woman was killed when the car she was driving was in collision with a lorry in Co Down.
It happened four miles north of Newry on the main Belfast road. A number of other people were taken to hospital.
And in Dublin a 19-year-old woman was killed when she was hit by a car.
Ms Marie Ann Costelloe died after she was knocked down on Clonsilla Road at about 2.30 a.m on Saturday morning.