Almost 500 people were waiting for a bed in hospitals across the country on Monday morning, as hospital staff prepare for another week of overcrowding.
Figures from the Irish Nursing and Midwives Organisation (INMO) trolley watch show that 489 admitted patients were waiting for beds on Monday morning. Almost 400 of those patients were waiting in the emergency department, while 99 were in wards elsewhere in the hospital.
The hospitals worst affected include University Hospital Limerick (UHL) with 48 patients waiting, Cork University Hospital with 38 and Letterkenny University Hospital with 37 patients.
