Nurses at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise were reporting serious overcrowding in the A&E Department today.

A nurse will end up dead unless attacks on medical staff in the North are stopped, it was claimed today.

People are being advised to stay away from the Emergency Department at St Vincent's Hospital after eighteen cases of the 'winter vomiting virus' were detected.

The Health Service Executive is warning that the A&E Department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is extremely busy.

A new report claims that Drogheda hospital's accident and emergency department is too small for the number of patients who attend it.

Nursing staff at Cork University Hospital will meet management today in a bid to resolve the A&E crisis which saw more than 30 people waiting for beds on trolleys over the weekend.

A DAMNING letter sent to Health Minister Mary Harney by a leading consultant paints a truly shocking picture of the suffering being endured by patients, the Labour Party said last night.

Elective surgery and other elective procedures were postponed on average of 80 times a day across the country during the first six months of this year, according to the Health Service Executive (HSE).

THE A&E crisis at Cork University Hospital continues to deepen, according to figures which show a near 38% increase in the number of people being treated on trolleys last month compared to February.

Dublin's Beaumont Hospital has cancelled all non-essential surgery today to help ease overcrowding at it's A&E Department.

DOZENS of patients were left waiting on trolleys with more being treated in a makeshift fashion in the waiting room of University Hospital Galway yesterday.

One of Dublin’s largest hospitals has denied claims that patients were treated in a mortuary.