There are nearly 80 people waiting for beds at hospitals serving the Premier county today.
University Hospital Limerick, which serves the North of the county has 57 people without a bed today, while South Tipperary General in Clonmel has 20 without a bed.
Eleven of those are in the emergency department and nine are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.
This comes on a day when 455 are waiting for a bed nationally, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
Cork University Hospital is the second busiest hospital in the country today with 41 waiting for a bed.
