The two males and two females had tested positive for the virus earlier this month but were given the all clear a number of days ago, it has emerged.

Mercy University Hospital Cork confirmed it is treating three inpatients who have tested positive for Covid-19 — all are associated with travel to an infected region.

As the numbers of coronavirus rise, levels of patient overcrowding in hospitals have reduced dramatically, according to the latest statistics published by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Strict visitor restrictions have been implemented in more than 20 hospitals around the country amid coronavirus fears.

The HSE has set up a dedicated team to trace everyone who came into contact with the coronavirus patient in Cork University Hospital (CUH) amid the first signs of panic buying in the city.

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.

Thirty-eight patients were on trolleys during one inspection at University Hospital Limerick’s Emergency Department. The agreed safety cap is 29.

A 90-year-old pensioner woman was forced to endure more than 48 hours of pain on a trolley and chair during the worst ever period of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.

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.

Patients families have hit out at what they described as “cattle mart” Emergency Department (ED) conditions, as the highest-ever levels of patent overcrowding were recorded today at University Hospital Limerick.

An inquest into the death a girl from Co Limerick - who died following a surgical procedure at University Hospital Limerick last year - is happening today.

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

Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) undertook the survey on foot of a “high number” of calls from members and the general public regarding delays in accessing both Fair Deal and transitional care funding support.

There are 426 patients waiting for a bed in hospitals around Ireland, with University Hospital Limerick the worst hit.

A dispute over patient overcrowding levels at University Hospital Limerick rumbled on Friday as the Taoiseach described the number of patients on trolleys at the hospital as “a crisis”.

A Co Limerick community is "numb and deeply saddened" at the sudden death of a teenage girl from the area.

Almost half of the children on hospital trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a bed, it has emerged.

University Hospital Limerick, the subject of an internal and external probe over concerns that patients died after being infected by multidrug-resistant superbugs, has been warned by the health watchdog to immediately boost staffing numbers in its infection prevention and control team, writes Catherine Shanahan.

University Hospital Limerick has apologised after a Limerick pensioner had to endure the trauma of “hearing the saw that cut the bone in his leg” during an amputation.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said he wants protocols introduced to deal with hospital patients who have private insurance and are also entitled to free treatment.

The HSE is opening a new €24 million emergency department (ED) at University Hospital Limerick today — but the new facility won’t do anything to reduce the numbers on trolleys at the hospital.

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

A robot surgeon has joined the operating team at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

The superbug CRE was a contributory factor in three deaths at University Hospital Limerick between 2009 and 2015, says the HSE.

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said his department is to order a review of bed capacity in hospitals to try to bring the number of working nurses to "adequate levels" writes David Raleigh.

The UL Hospitals Group, which oversees Limerick’s three hospitals, has apologised to patients because the city’s emergency department (ED) at University Hospital Limerick is “not fit for purpose”.

A work-to-rule industrial action at University Maternity Hospital Limerick is being threatened, following the breakdown of talks over staffing levels between management and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Up to 83% of patients who came to the overburdened Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick on one day last month could have been more appropriately seen at various assessment units within the four-hospital UHL Group, a study has found.

A man with whom 500 staff refused to co-operate following his appointment as chief operations manager to a Limerick hospital group has been appointed chief operations manager at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork.

Confidential patient notes, operating theatre schedules, and minutes of meetings were repeatedly sent in error to a member of the public for six months — despite his efforts to highlight the issue.

A 25-hour wait by a 101-year-old Co Clare grandmother on a trolley at the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has been described as "inhumane, deplorable, and disgraceful".

University Hospital Limerick has said it is transferring patients to hospitals in Clare and Tipperary because of a spike in patients attending the Emergency Department.

Up to 500 staff at five hospitals in the University of Limerick Hospital Group have begun industrial action over the continued employment of the group’s chief operations manager on €250,000 per year — more than twice the €116,000 that would be paid to a public servant.

A new report has highlighted a number of patient safety risks in the Limerick Hospitals group which it states must be addressed as a priority.