Cork and Limerick hospitals apologise to patients for A&E delays

University Hospital Limerick has 15,3222 patients waiting on a bed. Picture: Don Moloney

Hospitals in Cork and Limerick have apologised to patients facing delays in their emergency departments and defended efforts made to address the problem.

The apologies follow the revelation by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation that more than 100,000 people spent a night on either a trolley or chair across in the country's hospitals this year.