Trolley waits cast further doubts on ‘invaluable’ A&E review

UP to 569 people forced to wait on trolleys on January 5, and 59 waiting at a single hospital on Monday raise questions about our emergency department crisis.

However, at one hospital in particular, the problems guarantee further issues must also be raised.

Last autumn, an Irish Examiner investigation forced the HSE to reluctantly admit an internal inquiry was under way into how almost half a million euro in charitable donations to Cork University Hospital (CUH) had been spent in 2008.