New figures released to Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Older People, Mary Butler, have shown that 14,757 people aged over 75 had to wait over 24 hours in hospital Emergency Departments in the first three months of 2018.

More than 3000 people a year find out they have cancer in A&E - that is 6 people a day.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has promised thousands of protestors that he will 'fight for Portlaoise Hospital'.

Health Minister Simon Harris has written to management at University Hospital Limerick asking how overcrowding seemed to be getting worse even after a new €24m A&E had been opened there.

A leading doctor has warned the Government that future generations will accuse it of ignoring A&E overcrowding “abuse” in the same way as “clerical sex abuse, the Tuam babies and Magdalene Laundry scandals” unless they immediately tackle the crisis.

Not a single hospital has been fined for failure to implement a policy that is supposed to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments — at a time when numbers on trolleys are at record levels.

A number of doctors failed to present for work at emergency departments (EDs) yesterday in protest at a HSE directive intended to cap the pay of locums.

There are currently 303 people on trolleys in hospitals across the country, according to figures released today.

The country’s trolley crisis could be eased significantly if more hospitals opened five-day clinics and help prevent older people from falls, according to a researcher.

Sam McNicholl, who runs Connolly’s popular pub and music venue in Leap, Co Cork, has described sharing a trolley with a handcuffed prisoner in Cork University Hospital’s emergency department last month.

Up to 100% of HSE's mid west ambulance fleet parked up at Limerick hospital as patient overcrowding crisis continues, ambulance sources claim.

The number of children aged under six referred to emergency departments (ED) by their doctor has jumped dramatically, and as much as 55% at one large GP co-op, according to its medical director.

A patient with metastatic cancer told a doctor he would rather “drown myself in the river” than return for treatment to a cancer centre of excellence where he would face emergency department delays and the likelihood of days on a trolley.

Around one in eight admissions to an emergency department resulted in an “adverse reaction”, with 70% of events preventable, research reveals.

Doctors have warned that any attempt to impose a “one size fits all approach” to the crisis in hospital emergency departments will not work.

The Taoiseach has today apologised to the family of a six-week-old baby who waited 11 hours in A&E before being admitted to a children’s ward.

The health minister has been accused of placing patients at the mercy of profit margins after admitting he is in favour of contracting out the management of under- performing public hospitals to private companies.

This 91-year-old with Parkinson’s didn’t need a cure, he needed care. And this was when Ireland was found to be at its most careless. The whistleblower is being attacked ... but it is Mr Kenny who is to blame, writes Shaun Connolly

Outrage over a couple in their 90s who were left lying on hospital trolleys for hours has prompted calls for a dedicated official to be present in all emergency departments to oversee the care of elderly patients.

A senator has hit out at the Government after the emergency department of University Hospital Waterford (UHW) was forced to turn patients away due to overcrowding.

GPs have called for 24-hour access to diagnostic facilities as an urgent and essential first step in easing pressure on hospital emergency departments (EDs).

Nurses may take industrial action later this month to highlight continuing overcrowding in emergency departments.

IT must be terribly disheartening for those involved in trying to reform our health services to have to acknowledge that overcrowding in hospital emergency departments and wards has increased by 51%, when compared with the same month last year.

The emergency department at Kerry General Hospital (KGH), Tralee, has been “exceptionally busy” in recent days, resulting in long delays, the HSE has said.

The A&E at University Hospital Limerick has been described as a ‘cattle mart’ where elderly female patients on trolleys are being robbed of their dignity.

Despite the outcry after two women over the age of 100 spent over 24 hours on hospital trolleys, the Department of Health has defended its plan to tackle overcrowding in emergency departments.

A major acute hospital that had the highest number of patients on trolleys yesterday in its emergency department has been described by nurses as being “dangerously overcrowded”.

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Hospitals who ignore targets to reduce emergency department waiting times will face no sanction despite a promised crackdown by the health minister.

Hospitals have been told the number of delayed discharges — patients whose acute part of their care has ended — must be reduced on a continuous basis so that the figure does not exceed 500.

Ambulance crews are queuing up at the emergency department of a major hospital and waiting up to two hours before they can unload patients and are released to return to duty.