Dozens of empty hospital beds are lying idle in military hospitals while the country battles a hospital overcrowding crisis that is seeing hundreds of sick people lying on trolleys every night.
This is despite the Government spending hundreds of thousands of euro retooling some facilities at the start of Covid in a panic move to prepare them for reopening.
One of these was St Bricin’s in Dublin city centre, which is just a stone’s throw from the Mater hospital in Dublin 7.
