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Heavy snow has left motorists facing treacherous conditions across Northern Ireland.
Heavy snow has left motorists facing treacherous conditions across Northern Ireland and more is expected on Sunday night.

Parts of the north, west and east of the country were affected, with snow lying as deep as 200mm in places.

Roads Service said it was braced for more and ice is expected to be a major problem on the roads overnight on Sunday and into Monday morning.

"We've had to deploy our full fleet of 134 gritters throughout Northern Ireland and in some cases our snow ploughs" said Colin brown from the Roads Service.

"We've seen substantial snowfall and it's likely to remain the case, particularly in Antrim and into Down."

The north coast appears to be worst affected although parts of Co Down also received a carpeting.

Farmers on the north coast have been enlisted to help plough minor roads but major routes should be passable.

More snow is expected throughout the day the Met Office said some areas could see between and 10 and 20 centimetres.

Meanwhile both the International and George Best Belfast City Airports are operating normally, but after an early morning runway closure at the International and disruption from connecting flightsdelays are expected.

Passengers are asked to keep up to date on the airport website and online with their airline.

So the cold snap eventually reached Northern Ireland. Could we get a White Christmas this year? Send in your snow pictures for a chance to see them on UTV Live.

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At 13:17 on 21 December 2009, Sam wrote:
So much for global warming!
At 19:24 on 20 December 2009, jim wrote:
so the doe deployed all the gritter's, there was none on the roads in derry until this morning.. i went to work at 7.30am, every main road was dangerous because they were not salted. the weather forecast for this fall of snow was on the tv and radio for the past two days, still the doe did nothing to salt the roads in derry...i've seen one car totally destroyed because the driver skidded.. colin brown has a bloody cheek saying they deployed 134 gritters...
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