Elderly man 'on trolley for five days waiting for hospital bed'

An elderly man has been on a trolley in an emergency department waiting for a hospital bed for five days.

The cancer patient was one of 40 people in need of a bed in the severely overcrowded A&E unit in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda with medics warning the crisis will only get worse in the autumn and winter unless dramatic steps are taken.