Temperatures remain below freezing in many areas this morning as icy roads pose a problem for motorists.

AA Roadwatch says many routes are treacherous in counties, Donegal, Roscommon, Leitrim and Westmeath.

The advice is to slow down and increase your braking distance.

Met Éireann is forecasting severe frost as temperatures dropped to as low as minus 5 degrees last night - it is coldest in the south Midlands.

However, Joan Blackburn from Met Eireann says it is an improving situation;