Six people, including two children, have died over the Bank Holiday weekend as a result of road traffic accidents, and three gardaí were injured when their patrol car overturned on the N11 dual-carriageway at Loughlinstown, Co Dublin.
The deaths bring to 286 the number of people who have died this year in road traffic accidents in the Republic.
Five of this weekend's fatalities were in the Republic and include an 80-year-old man who was knocked down a month ago and died on Saturday.
Last year, over the same Bank Holiday period, six people died on the Republic's roads.
Two of the victims were children, a boy aged two and a 12-year-old girl, who died in accidents in Belfast and Co Galway.
The two-year-old child was struck by a passing car as he walked on the roadway at Derrybeg, Tynagh, Co Galway, shortly after noon yesterday. He died at the scene.
The 12-year-old girl died after being struck by a motorcycle on the Stewartstown Road in Belfast at 2.20 p.m yesterday. Police in Dunmurray, in the west of the city, are investigating the accident.
Gardaí said no other vehicle was involved in the traffic accident in which three gardaí, two men and a woman, were injured on Sunday night.
Their car went through the median hedge on the N11 at Loughlinstown, overturned a number of times and landed on the other side of the median. The vehicle was not involved in any pursuit, but gardaí believe it may have hit an icy patch. All three were treated at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.
An 81-year-old pedestrian, a 22-year-old front-seat passenger and a 49-year-old van driver died in separate accidents on Friday and Saturday.