Five die in separate road crashes during weekend

Two people died in the Republic and three in Tyrone in separate road crashes at the weekend.

Meanwhile, a man who suffered head injuries in a crash last month has died.

In the most recent fatality, a male pedestrian was hit by a car at Tuiterath in Balrath, Co Meath, on the N2 Dublin- to-Derry road at around 1.30am yesterday. The man, in his mid-fifties, was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was transported to Navan General Hospital, where an autopsy was to be conducted.