Two people have been killed on the roads this afternoon.
A male cyclist was killed when he was hit by a car outside Ballina, Co Mayo on the main road to Sligo just before 5.00 p.m.
He has yet to be named by gardaí.
Less than an hour later, a woman pedestrian in her sixties died when she was struck by a car in Co Westmeath.
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The incident happened about three miles from Mullingar on the main Dublin-Sligo Road. She has also not been named.