The UL Hospitals Group has launched an investigation following the death of a patient after he was found with a broken neck on the ground next to his trolley.

The hospital is consistently the most overcrowded in the country, however management say they do not have enough bed capacity to deal with their catchment of around 400,000.

There were 81 admitted patients waiting for a bed in UHL today, a record figure first reached on April 3 and again on July 11 this year.

Almost 100 nursing vacancies but less than half of graduates get jobs

None of the more than 80 nurses and midwives due to graduate shortly in Limerick has been offered a work contract by the HSE at a time when there are 100 vacancies across the University of Limerick hospital group.

42 schools built by Western Building Systems were found to have structural defects.

Staff at University Hospital Limerick fear the crisis could escalate even further this weekend after experiencing a record number of patients on trolleys for a hospital yesterday.

A seriously injured grandmother was “savagely attacked” by a male patient while she was sleeping in her bed at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

Staff in some parts of Cork University Hospital had to increase their level of hand hygiene following a health watchdog inspection, which also raised concerns over hygiene levels in sections of University Hospital Limerick.