Nurses may ballot over overcrowding

INMO members are meeting as the latest figures show an increase of 17 per cent in the number of patients on trolleys compared with this time last year. 

Nurses say that the conditions in hospitals are shameful ahead of one of the busiest times of the year.

Maire works in a large acute hospital in Dublin, she says that some of the conditions they’re being asked to work in are inhumane.