INMO criticise 'obscene' levels of hospital overcrowding

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has described hospital overcrowding as "obscene", as trolley figures emerged showing 679 patients waiting for a bed, the worst so far this year and the second-highest ever recorded.

The hospitals worst affected are University Hospital Limerick with 63 patients on trolleys, Cork University Hospital with 60, Letterkenny University Hospital with 47 and South Tipperary General Hospital with 40.