Three more deaths on Irish roads after separate crashes in Dublin, Cork and Wicklow

Gardaí examine the scene of a road crash on Churchtown road upper in Dundrum, on Sunday morning. Photo: Damien Storan

There have now been 61 deaths on the country's roads since the start of the year - the equivalent of four fatalities every seven days.

Over the weekend three more were added to the tragic total with the deaths of a pedestrian in his 40s in Midleton in Cork in the early hours of Sunday morning a motorcyclist in his 20s in Co Wicklow on Saturday evening and a van driver in his 60s in Dublin also this morning.