The end of the weekend and the start of next week will see snow fall and increasing wintry showers according to Met Eireann.
Friday will be largely dry with a good deal of cloud with a few patches of mist or drizzle.
Temperatures of 9C will drop to around 3C in the night time but will stay mostly cloudy overnight with a few patches of light rain or drizzle.
Looking into the weekend, Met Eireann is predicting snow, sleet and wintry falls for Ireland on Sunday and Tuesday.
Sunday will be a cold, blustery day with sunshine and scattered showers some of which will turn wintry.
These showers will become increasingly wintry with some falls of sleet or snow and temperatures dropping to -1C.
Looking into next week, they said: "It will be a cold and blustery day on Monday with sunny spells and showers, many wintry in nature. The showers will be heaviest and most frequent in the south and west in fresh and gusty southwest winds.
"There will be clear spells and blustery wintry showers on Monday night with minimum temperatures of -2 to +3 degrees and a fairly widespread frost in areas sheltered from the fresh westerly breeze."
For Tuesday they are also predicting more wintry showers with snow on ground, hail and sleet predicted.
