Waterford's psychiatric nurses to strike in overcrowding protest

Pictures released first in the Irish Examiner show patients sleeping on the floor of the Psychiatric Unit in University Hospital Waterford.

Psychiatric nurses are to strike later today to highlight overcrowding in a unit at University Hospital Waterford.

They say unprecedented levels of overcrowding, and staffing shortages, are continuously compromising standards of care for service users and placing staff working in the psychiatric unit under "intolerable pressure".