530 people are waiting for a bed at hospitals across the country today.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded.
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57 patients who have been admitted to the hospital which serves North Tipp, Clare and Limerick are without a bed.
35 of these are being cared for in the Emergency Department while another 22 are on already full wards.
South Tipp General in Clonmel has 21 patients without a bed while there are 6 people being cared for in overflow areas of Nenagh Hospital.