Major overcrowding at UHL and STGH

Nearly 100 people are being cared for on trolleys at hospitals serving Tipperary today.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 638 patients without a bed at hospitals across the country.

65 of these are at University Hospital Limerick which caters for patients from North Tipperary.

South Tipp General in Clonmel has 33 people on trolleys around the Emergency Department or in overflow areas of wards while there is 1 patient without a bed at Nenagh Hospital.