101-year-old left on trolley for 25 hours

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".

101-year-old left on trolley for 25 hours

Mary Fogarty of the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation made the comments after the woman’s granddaughter slammed what she described as “a wreck of a health system we have in Ireland”.

In a Facebook post highlighting her grandmother’s trolley plight, the Barefield woman said: “This is not a unique case.”

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