Two people have been killed in overnight traffic accidents.

A man was killed in a car crash on the main N2 road which runs between Dublin and the north west, gardaí said tonight.

A man and woman have died following an accident on the N2 road between Finglas in Dublin and Ashbourne in Meath.

A notorious stretch of the N2 road in Monaghan is to be replaced between Castleblaney and Monaghan.

GARDAÍ are to continue the search today for a robber who fled the scene of a fatal car crash in Co Louth at the weekend which left one of his accomplices dead.