The hospital – which provides Emergency Department cover for North Tipperary, Limerick and Clare – is the busiest in the country this lunchtime.
According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 52 patients without a bed there today.
31 of these are being cared for on trolleys around the ED while another 21 are in overflow areas of already full wards.
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Meanwhile at South Tipp General in Clonmel there are 19 people without a bed today.
In all there are nearly 400 patients waiting for a bed at hospitals across the country.
