Temperatures plummet below -8C in 'coldest night so far'

Met Éireann said the cold spell would continue into Saturday, 'with mist and fog in some areas'. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Temperatures plummeted below –8C across the country last night, in what Met Éireann described as “the coldest night of the winter so far”.

The coldest temperature recorded was in Mount Dillon station, Co Roscommon, where temperatures dropped to –8.8C, followed closely by Markree Castle in Sligo, where a temperature of –7.4C was noted.