Met Éireann said it will be a cold start to New Year's Day with widespread frost and some icy stretches.

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Any frost will clear early Saturday morning to leave a dry day with widespread spells of low winter sunshine. It may, however, turn a little cloudier across eastern areas into the afternoon.

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Over the Christmas period alone, there were eight fatalities on Irish roads and 20 people received serious and life-threatening injuries.