Lengthy delays can be expected for those attending Emergency Departments covering the Premier County today.
Nearly a quarter of all patients being cared for on trolleys are at the three main hospitals serving Tipperary.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation report a total of 484 people who have been admitted to hospital are without a bed.
University Hospital Limerick – which covers North Tipp, Limerick and Clare – accounts for 71 of these making it the most overcrowded in the country.
Another 43 are at South Tipp General in Clonmel while Nenagh hospital has three people on trolleys.
