New figures released to Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Older People, Mary Butler, have shown that 14,757 people aged over 75 had to wait over 24 hours in hospital Emergency Departments in the first three months of 2018.
Nearly 600 people are waiting for hospital beds today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's trolley watch.
532 people are on trolleys in hospitals across the country today.
Overcrowding in emergency departments of Irish hospitals is costing lives, the new President of the Irish Medical Organisation has said.
Trolley/Ward watch figures for March broke all records for that month, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) revealed today.
More than 3000 people a year find out they have cancer in A&E - that is 6 people a day.
Up to 522 people are waiting on trolleys in hospitals across the country today.
Up to 500 people are waiting on trolleys at hospitals across the country today.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has called on the Minister for Health Simon Harris to “reassess his priorities” and reconsider his visit to The Netherlands and Belgium for St Patrick’s Day.
Latest: There is a call for prefabs or modular units for Hospital Emergency Departments to ease the overcrowding crisis.
Latest: There is a call for prefabs or modular units for Hospital Emergency Departments to ease the overcrowding crisis.
This Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) say they have recorded more than 600 patients on trolleys in hospitals around the country every day this week.
There are 556 people on trolleys and in overflow wards in hospitals across the country today.
There are more than 600 patients waiting to be admitted to hospitals around the country today.
Today's trolley and ward watch figures show that there are 528 patients waiting to be admitted to hospitals around the country.
There are 544 patients on trolleys in hospitals around the country.
500 people are on trolleys in hospitals across the country today.
There are 580 people on trolleys in hospitals around the country today.
There are 529 people on trolleys in hospitals around the country today with Cork University Hospital the most overcrowded.
Campaign groups say urgent action is needed to address the trolley crisis.