32 patients are being cared for on trolleys at South Tipp General Hospital.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, they are among 568 in a similar situation across the country today.
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Once again University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded – the facility which provides Emergency Department cover for North Tipp, Clare and Limerick – has 63 people without a bed.
So far this week, front-line staff at UHL have had to treat 215 patients on trolleys while 108 have been left without a bed in Clonmel since Monday.
Nationally this figure stands at 1,775.