Cork University Hospital had the second-highest number of admitted patients waiting for a bed last month, at 1,031

A footballer from the North has been named locally as one of the weekend’s seven road-crash victims.

Elderly people are getting lost in a health system that is not fit for purpose, says Bernadette Walshe, whose elderly father begged for a bed for his wife at Cork University Hospital.

In their daily TrolleyWatch figures, they say there are 521 patients are being treated on trolleys at hospitals across the country.

Five hundred and thirty people are waiting for beds in hospitals across the country this morning

University Hospital Galway is the worst affected with 63 patients without a bed, according to the INMO.

A “modest investment” in elective surgery during the winter surge in hospital activity is the practical solution to the predictable annual crisis, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has claimed.

University Hospital Limerick is the worst affected facility with 51 people on trolleys.

The level of outbreaks of flu in Irish emergency departments during this winter is “perturbing” and shouldn’t happen “if we got vaccination right” according to the HSE’s head of public care.

A call by nurses for a major incident protocol to be adopted across the country to alleviate hospital overcrowding has been backed by opposition parties.

Meanwhile, two of the largest hospitals in the country have warned people to stay away due to high levels of influenza patients.

Over 600 patients are being treated on trolleys at hospitals across the country.

According to the INMO, the worst hit is University Hospital Limerick where 75 people are waiting for beds.

A study has found elderly patients on trolleys in emergency departments get an average of just one hour of sleep in any 24-hour period.

University Hospital Galway is the worst hit hospital today.

A man is reported to be in a critical condition in hospital tonight after he was pulled from the sea in Kinvara, Co Galway.

There were 1,450 admitted patients waiting on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick this month, making it the most overcrowded public acute hospital in the country.

The number of surgeries for the treatment of morbid obesity should be increased six-fold to 1,000 a year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has said.

Tympany Medical is using technology to help in surgical ear procedures, writes Trish Dromey

Children with endocrine disorders that could potentially affect growth and development are struggling to access timely care, a hospital consultant has warned.

There is €26m for a winter plan to deal with emergency department overcrowding in acute public hospitals, Simon Harris, the health minister, has confirmed.

There are 487 patients waiting for hospital beds this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Trolley Watch.

The accuracy of waiting list figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has been called into question by a consultant who said the official figures were a “tenfold under-estimation” of the actual situation vis-a-vis his own specialty.

There are 388 people waiting for hospital beds across the country this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The worst-hit hospital today is University Hospital Limerick with 76 people awaiting beds.

On 19 July the Press Ombudsman upheld a complaint that a headline in the Irish Examiner breached Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice of the Press Council of Ireland.

Gardaí say a man fell to the ground after “colliding with a vehicle” near the site of the Connemara Gateway Hotel.

The number is the highest since April 9 when there was a year-high 631 on trolleys.

The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has hit back at claims he has no plan to deal with “outrageous” levels of patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

A man in his 70s has died following a two-car collision in County Galway.

Chronic overcrowding continued across the country’s hospitals as 504 admitted patients languished on trolleys in emergency departments and wards today.

More than 500 people are waiting for hospital beds around the country this morning.

Seven acute hospitals had 30 or more admitted patients waiting for a bed today and the worst-hit hospital was University Hospital Limerick with 76 waiting.

Gardaí said that the motorcyclist received serious injuries and was taken to University Hospital Galway.

504 patients are waiting for beds in Irish hospitals this morning.

The alarm was raised around midday today at Blackrock Beach, gardaí confirmed.

A scam in which hospital patients received letters advising them they had won money in a lottery has been reported to An Garda Síochána.

The most drastic action or “last resort” available to hospitals when dealing with emergency department (ED) overcrowding has already been deployed 1,600 times this year.

A man in his 40s was seriously injured when he came to the assistance of another man being assaulted.

An urgent review has been demanded into how deaths in Direct Provision are handled after a transgender woman was buried without anyone she knew present.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.