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Updated at 5.32pm
MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a weather warning with strong winds expected overnight.
Gusts are expected to reach as much as 100 km/h on Friday night and early Saturday morning,
The yellow warning is in place for Connacht, Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal and Waterford.
Some parts of the country can also expect a light dusting of snow or sleet – and temperatures will be below zero in some areas overnight.
Along with that, the wintry showers will arrive in the north, and over high hills and mountains. We can expect them to fall as rain elsewhere.
AA Roadwatch has encouraged drivers to reduce speed as a result of the warning.
“As the weather changes, motorists need to be even more careful,” AA’s Director of Consumer Affairs Conor Faughnan said.
It is pertinent that motorists reduce their speed and allow a greater braking distance when driving on wet, windy and icy roads.
Updates on driving conditions can be found on the AA’s website.
Below freezing
Here’s what kind of weather we can expect after nightfall:
“Tonight temperatures will fall to below freezing over hills and higher ground and will be near freezing in most other places. However in western coastal counties temperatures will fall to between plus 1 and plus 3 degrees.
Wintry showers will continue but will become mostly isolated overnight. Fresh to strong northwest to north winds will slowly ease a little.
It will stay pretty cold over the weekend, with a sharp frost expected in some areas on Saturday night – but temperatures should recover on Monday.
- with reporting by Órla Ryan
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Wonderful human being with a beautiful voice and delightful comic timing. Rest in Peace.
Now there was an icon!
Think I’ll go download the Calamity Jane soundtrack……
@Bob Earner: Whip crack away,whip crack awayyyyyyyyy
@Quentin Moriarty: : )
RIP , not only a silver screen icon but also for animal welfare. She will be missed
@marianne ryan: mossie lo ed her too
So very sad, I loved her. What a fantastic woman she seemed to be and what an incredible talent. R.I.P
From a time when acting and movies were just incredible. RIP.
Ce sera sera
Qué Sera Sera
What a beautiful legend full of life and charismatic presence on and off stage
@Joseph Molloy: used. Hrysm( )
I fell in love with her over and over again .
Awwe Rip. REM watching her on black and white TV in the 70s
Stars shining bright above you,r.i.p Doris Day,wonderful voice
Absolute icon
I read years ago Tarantino wanted her to play Mama Vega to John Travolta & Michael Madson’s Vic & Vincent in “The Vega Brothers” but it never happened. Would have been a scene stealer.
She looks great for 97
“She joined a long list of actors to receive her own star on the Hollywood walk of fame”. They always forget to mention that the actor in question then has to pay $40,000 for it to be installed and maintained…
@Calum Benson: sure actors are millionaires. That amount is nothing to them.
She was magic with a fantastic voice.
Every day should be a Doris Day
She brought us all such innocent joy…
Good night Calamity Jane…
Que sera sera sera sera sera..
Ar dheis Dè go raibh a hAnam dìlis
Woah what a icon though and 97 is a hell of an age to get to there’s not a person alive who wouldn’t be lucky to live that long. R.I.P
We watch Calamity every Xmas don’t know why but we always have family tradition, this Xmas won’t b the same… fab actress and person
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