Over 300 patients are without a bed at hospitals across the country today.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation 44 of these are in hospitals serving the Premier County.
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South Tipp General in Clonmel has a total of 29 – 12 of these are on trolleys around the Emergency Department with another 17 in overflow areas of wards.
At University Hospital Limerick – which provides Emergency Department cover for North Tipp – there are 15 patients without a bed.
University Hospital Galway is the most overcrowded today – frontline staff there are coping with 51 people on trolleys and chairs.
