Seven people were killed on the country's roads over the weekend period.

A cyclist in Dublin died Friday morning and a man in Tipperary also died Friday after being involved in a crash on Wednesday.

The deaths of four men and one woman on Saturday and Sunday brought to 43 the number of road deaths so far this year.

A 50-year-old male cyclist was fatally injured yesterday when he collided with a camper van on the N18 near Bunratty in Clare.

In north Cork a 21-year-old man died when the car he was driving crashed on the R577 yesterday.

A man in his 30s was also killed when the car he was driving left the road and struck a fence on the N59 in Kilbride in Mayo.

On Saturday night, an 18-year-old woman who was seriously injured in a crash on the N21 in Limerick on Friday, was pronounced dead.

She was the passenger in a car that collided with a truck. The 19-year-old driver of the car was killed in the collision.

Forty-three people have been killed on Irish roads this year, compared with 42 for the first three months of 2016.