Over 480 people who have been admitted to hospital are without a bed today.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation 67 of these are at University Hospital Limerick.
The hospital – which serves North Tipp, Limerick and Clare – is once again the most overcrowded in the country.
Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel has eight patients being cared for on trolleys in the Emergency Department today.
