A man is his forties has been killed following a crash in Co. Kilkenny.

The motorcyclist died after his bike collided with a car on the Knocktopher Road at around two o’ clock yesterday afternoon.

It brings to three the number of people killed on our roads over the weekend.

A 73-year-old woman died following a two car collision at Rathgory in Ardee in Co. Louth shortly before midnight on Saturday night.

While a 63-year-old male pedestrian died after being struck by a car at Elphin in Co. Roscommon after 3 o’clock yesterday morning.