The long-awaited delivery of modular units for a 60-bed ward block at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has commenced.

University Hospital Limerick hospital has “apologised sincerely and unreservedly” to the family of a teenage girl who died after sustaining massive blood loss and an injury to her aorta, during a routine surgery.

Two separate investigations are underway after a male prisoner escaped from custody whilst attending University Hospital Limerick, this afternoon.

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

The UL Hospital’s Group said UHL is “currently managing high volumes of patients that have arisen due to a busy weekend in the ED”.

Chronic overcrowding continued across the country’s hospitals as 531 admitted patients languished on trolleys in emergency departments and wards today.

The two other worst-hit hospitals were Cork University Hospital that had 41 patients waiting and University Hospital Galway that had 34.

Limerick TD Willie O’Dea has called on a former nurse, who alleges hospital staff carried out a procedure for which she had not given her consent, to make a formal garda statement about the matter.

A former nurse has said she is “considering” making a complaint to gardaí and contacting her solicitor, after claiming she received an anonymous text message warning her not to speak to the media about her experiences as an in-patient at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

The chief executive of University Hospital Limerick, Professor Colette Cowan has admitted that the €25 million emergency department opened just 18 months ago is not able to cope with the numbers coming through its doors.

The intolerable conditions faced by patients and staff at the overcrowded A&E at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are set to be further prolonged.

439 people are on trolleys in hospitals across the country today.

There were 649 patients on trolleys in emergency departments or on wards waiting for a hospital bed yesterday, a decrease of just 65 on Monday’s record high of 714.

There are 534 people waiting for beds in hospitals around the country today.

Latest: There is a record number of patients on trolleys at hospitals across the country - at 656.

University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is now using 360º live-streaming of robotic surgical procedures to train doctors and healthcare professionals.

The research has found that interns are using instant messengers like WhatsApp because it's the easiest way to share details.

The young girl from Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary was killed after an incident at a house last Saturday.

University Hospital Limerick has been criticised over medication safety, with inspectors claiming that “the collective nature of the risks identified presented potential risks to patients”.

An analysis by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation of its trolley/ward watch shows there were 640 admitted patients on trolleys in UHL waiting for a hospital bed.

The long-awaited emergency department at University Hospital Limerick is opening its doors to patients for the first time this morning.

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 €28m emergency department set to open at University Hospital Limerick on Monday already faces a huge increase in patient numbers.

Nurses have refused to occupy the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick.

The HSE has been warned that it could face legal proceedings if UHL continues to breach its own fire safety risk assessment threshold of having more than 44 patients in its ED at any on time.

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

Infection control measures are in place due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug at University Hospital Limerick.

A wild salmon caught in Cork Harbour last week ended up netting a tasty chunk of cash for charity.

The UL Hospitals Group, which oversees Limerick's three hospitals, has apologised to patients and admitted the city's Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick is "not fit for purpose", after a whistleblower described conditions there as "absolute hell".

Junior Doctors at University Hospital Limerick are to engage in Industrial action.

The INMO has said the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick is totally unsafe, with nurses in despair.

The daughter of a well-known Limerick businessman has described how her dying father was left over 12 hours on a hospital trolley surrounded by drunks and sick patients.

A HSE review into maternity services at Portlaoise, University Hospital Limerick and the Midland Regional Hospital has recommended a full review of nine out of 28 cases.

A second 101-year-old woman spent over 24 hours on an emergency department hospital trolley, it has been claimed.

A woman who was rescued after entering the River Shannon last night has died in hospital.

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland says a new state-of-the-art unit in University Hospital, Limerick, could be made operational within weeks if the Government approved funding for it.

A body has been found following a

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A man has died in hospital after he was pulled from a river in Co Clare late yesterday.

Nurses raised fears about the safety of the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick yesterday as the number of patients on trolleys reached 45.