Over 400 people are being cared for on trolleys in hospitals around Ireland today.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation the numbers are up 8% on the same day last year at 413.
39 of these are at University Hospital Limerick which provides cover for North Tipperary.
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At South Tipp General in Clonmel there are 12 patients on trolleys around the Emergency Department or in overflow areas of wards.
Nenagh General has one person without a bed this lunchtime.
University Hospital Galway is the most overcrowded today with 43 people waiting for a bed.