INMO call for direct intervention as trolley figures 'spiral out of control'

There are currently 725, as of Monday night, with the disease compared to 997 on the same day two weeks ago.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisations (INMO) has said the hospital trolley numbers are "spiralling out of control" and are calling non-emergency care to be curtailed until February.

It comes as 549 patients are on trolleys in Irish hospitals today, with 111 and of them in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) alone.