A 30-year-old man has died following a single vehicle road crash.
The man died when his car left the road and hit a tree on the Pallasgreen to Cappamore Road at around 2.10am this morning.
His body has been removed to the Mid West Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle where a post mortem is expected to take place this morning.
The road was closed for a time while a garda forensic team carried out an examination of the scene but the road has since been re-opened.