Nurses are demanding urgent action on hospital overcrowding.
Latest figures from the INMO show just over 10,000 patients, including 297 children, were admitted to hospital without a bed last month.
Yesterday there were over 700 patients left on trolleys.
Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will gather in Killarney today for the union’s Annual Delegate Conference.
General Secretary Phil Ni Sheaghdha says there is a chronic staffing crisis which needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency:
