Conditions are expected to remain very cold this morning with frost, ice and fog slow to clear.

Although it will be dry, with hazy sunshine in eastern areas a yellow weather alert for all of Ireland will remain in place until at least 10 O'Clock.

Temperatures will rise to around 3 or 4 degrees celcius later in the day but the cold snap of recent days is set continue until Wednesday night.

Met Eireann's Pat Clarke says motorists will need to take care in this morning's icy conditions: