The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called for a bespoke plan to tackle overcrowding in Cork City.
Cork University Hospital has 92 patients on trolleys while 40 people who have been admitted to the Mercy University Hospital are without a bed.
613 patients are being treated on a trolley or chair nationwide including 86 at University Hospital Limerick which serves North Tipperary.
Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel has 26 patients without a bed today.
