Some traffic updates: In Cork - Whitegate to Midleton - Saleen Hill - R630 impassable cars and trucks coming from Refinery delivering oil to the country cannot get up or down Saleen Hill, road closed. Tractors pulling cars from ditches, visibility is minimal. Very difficult conditions. 

The N51 Navan/Slane Road is impassable due to traffic with three snow stranded articulated vehicles blocking the roadway. Motorists should be advised to avoid this area.

Kilkenny: Exit 3 M9 northbound closed, avoid. two jackknifed trucks. Athy/Baltinglass exit. Roads around Kilkenny very slippery. Johnswell Clara especially dangerous.