Large numbers without a bed at UHL

115 people are on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick today.

This is more than the numbers at the next three most overcrowded hospitals in the country.

Letterkenny University Hospital has 47, Cork University Hospital with 33 and St Vincent’s in Dublin has 28.

Nationally 429 people who have been admitted to hospital are without a bed according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

TUH in Clonmel has 9 people without a bed.