There are over 100 people being cared for on trolleys at hospitals serving Tipperary this lunchtime.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 63 patients without a bed at University Hospital Limerick.
The hospital – which covers North Tipp – is the most overcrowded in the country.
The overcrowding situation at South Tipp General in Clonmel is also at crisis point today with 42 people waiting for a bed.
Nationally there are 424 people in a similar situation today.
