University Hospital Limerick had the highest number of patients on trolleys in the country last month.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation the hospital – which covers North Tipp, Limerick and Clare – treated 1,269 people who were without a bed during October.
This was 205 more than for the same month last year.
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The next highest was Letterkenny University Hospital with 943.
Meanwhile staff at Tipperary University Hospital cared for 89 people who were without a bed during October while Nenagh General had 15.
In all 8,645 patients were left without a bed at hospitals across the country last month.