Group to highlight A&E crisis

ALMOST 500 people are set to protest on Good Friday over the high number of people on trolleys in hospital A&E departments.

The Patients Together group is to bring 495 people equivalent to the number on trolleys on March 8 last, according to Irish Nurses' Organisation figures, to Leinster House at midday on April 14.

The protest is taking place under the banner, Lie down and be Counted. Those taking part will lie down in the courtyard of the Houses of the Oireachtas.