Health service set for 'exceptionally busy' summer with stretched services 

Trolley Watch figures paint a grim picture of the overcrowding situation in our hospitals.

The health service is stumbling into a summer of discontent with more paramedic strikes planned for this month, on top of “exceptionally busy” hospitals and stretched community services.

On Tuesday, around 2,000 paramedics and emergency staff picketed, including hundreds in Cork, under Siptu and Unite as they called for extra work and responsibilities to be recognised, among other pay-related issues.