Consultant who spent four days on trolley says 'this is a pure bed and resource issue'

With his trolley protected only by a curtain, Dr Mick Molloy had the additional indignity of having gardaí and rowdy patients fall on top of him.

“This is not a people or staff issue, this is a pure bed and resource issue.”

That is how an emergency department consultant, who himself spent four days on a trolley in an overcrowded ED has described the beds crisis.