Hospitals serving Tipp account for 25% of patients on trolleys

A quarter of the patients left without a bed in Irish hospitals today are being cared for at the two main facilities serving Tipperary.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation 379 people who have been admitted to hospital today are being cared for on trolleys.

Of these 88 are at UHL which serves North Tipp, Limerick and Clare.

Another 7 are on trolleys in the Emergency Department at Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel.