Limerick and Cork have two of the worst hit hospitals today.

University Hospital Limerick has the most patients waiting for beds today.

The worst-hit hospital today is University Hospital Limerick.

It is only the second time ever this number has been hit and it has come over two weeks earlier than last year.

The number is down from yesterday's figure of 679 which was the highest figure of the year so far.

The figure is the second-highest ever recorded.

University Hospital Galway is the worst hit hospital today.

535 patients are waiting on trolleys at hospitals across the country.

The number is up significantly on Monday's figure, when 472 patients were waiting for beds.

A Limerick councillor has called for extra Garda resources after three youths, including a 14-year-old boy, received stab wounds in a series of violent incidents in Corbally, last Friday night.

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That figures means the hospital is the worst-hit in the country today, ahead of the University Hospitals in Limerick and Waterford, according to the daily TrolleyWatch figures.

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

The figure has been rising since Monday.

The man was taken to University Hospital in Waterford for treatment. However, despite efforts to save him he passed away from his injuries. A postmortem is expected to take place today.

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

The number of patients waiting for beds in Irish hospitals has risen again.

According to the INMO Trolley Watch figures, 356 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 147 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

541 patients are waiting for beds in hospitals around Ireland.

The average is around five in every 100 people, however it's almost nine in every 100 at the Co Cork facility.

There has been a 7% rise in the number of people waiting on trolleys in hospitals across the country.

There was no rest for Joan Costelloe, a cook employed at University Hospital, who awoke before dawn to prepare “special meals”, for patients unable to eat or swallow hard food.

9,015 patients were left waiting for a hospital bed in the month of May.

Management at University Hospital in Waterford have received a complaint about mortuary facilities at the hospital from the family of a deceased person whose remains were kept in conditions which have been described by pathologists as "unfit for purpose".

Lucia Ebbs has been appointed CEO of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) Ireland.

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University Hospital Limerick has recorded the highest-ever daily figure of patients waiting on trolleys.

Lifeboat taskings to rescue three women from the fast-flowing Corrib in Galway earlier this week have prompted the port’s harbour master to call for safety railings on the city’s riverbank.

An investigation is underway following a serious crash in Clare this morning.

An elderly woman has died in a road accident in Co. Roscommon.

The man who died following a farming accident in Co Wexford has been named locally as Martin Keogh Jnr.

Almost 8,000 patients were admitted to hospital on trolleys in August, an increase of 27% on the same period last year.

The unsuitability of the acute mental health unit at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) for dementia patients and the need for an acute hospital on Cork City’s northside were among issues raised at the launch of a series of healthcare documents by Sinn Féin.

A quick-thinking garda used a shoelace to tie the umbilical cord of a baby born during morning rush hour at traffic lights near Galway City as the parents rushing to reach the University Hospital had to settle for a car seat birth instead.

Gardaí are seeking witnesses to a vicious assault on a woman outside the archbishop of Dublin’s home on Tuesday evening.

It has been claimed that up to 30 people have died at a Limerick hospital after being infected with superbugs.

Patients intending to go to the Emergency Departments at University Hospital in Kerry and in Galway are being warned to expect long delays due to increased activity.

Almost 400 people are on trolleys and in overflow wards in hospitals today, according to nurses.

Patients at the National Liver Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin continue to be at risk of contracting a serious bacterial infection, it has emerged.

The father of a two-year-old boy who fell from a rooftop balcony last Saturday has said doctors have "worked miracles" to keep his son alive, writes David Raleigh.

Gardaí in Waterford have been conducting door-to-door inquiries after a assault left a 20-year-old in danger of losing some of his fingers.