Varadkar: Overcrowding at Beaumont should ease in coming days

Health Minister Leo Varadkar is promising overcrowding in hospitals will ease in the coming days - but has warned that a long-term fix could take at least 18 months to sort out.

Hospital overcrowding is now said to be at its worst in a decade, with Dublin's Beaumont Hospital pleading with the public and doctors not to use its services in a bid to ease the pressures.