# overcrowding - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
Minister Charlie Flanagan said his officials are always working to try to reduce overcrowding.
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# overcrowding - Monday 4 February, 2019
There are thousands of families in Dublin living in conditions of severe overcrowding – the worst case I’ve come across was 14 people living in a 2-bed flat, writes Críona Ní Dhálaigh.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
The INMO says its a 9% increase on 2017 – itself a record high – and nearly double the number in 2006 when records began.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
The INMO has said the health service “simply does not have capacity to cope” with demand.
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# overcrowding - Saturday 13 October, 2018
The government plans to build three elective only hospitals by 2027.
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# overcrowding - Friday 31 August, 2018
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
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# overcrowding - Saturday 18 August, 2018
Traders in the iconic marketplace have complained that snap-happy visitors are hurting business.
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# overcrowding - Saturday 7 April, 2018
Peadar Gilligan made his inaugural address as president of the Irish Medical Organisation at the group’s AGM in Killarney this evening.
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# overcrowding - Thursday 15 February, 2018
The hospital said seriously ill or injured children will still be treated as a priority.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
A total of seven new longer trams are being introduced to Luas Cross City over the coming months.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
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The closure of the Sandyford park and ride, and the overcrowding further along the Green Line, have been criticised so far this year.
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Environment Minister Denis Naughten said the importance of air quality and the impacts it has on our health cannot be underestimated.
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# overcrowding - Monday 8 January, 2018
Many emergency departments are experiencing very high numbers of patients presenting at hospital.
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They can be done and they must be done – we have to believe that, writes hospital consultant Dr Anthony O’Connor.
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# overcrowding - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
A record high of 656 people were waiting on trolleys as 2018 began, according to the INMO.
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# overcrowding - Friday 22 December, 2017
The move is an attempt to ease pressure on services over the busy Christmas period.
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# overcrowding - Monday 20 November, 2017
GRA members say there are serious health and safety issues at the station.
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# overcrowding - Thursday 9 November, 2017
The INMO said the overcrowding situation is having a “serious, detrimental and harmful effect” on patients.
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# overcrowding - Friday 20 October, 2017
A customer care representative said that more funding was needed to reduce overcrowding.
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# overcrowding - Friday 13 October, 2017
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has said the situation is intolerable for patients and upsetting for staff.
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# overcrowding - Friday 14 July, 2017
Reports on social media suggested that people were queuing up for well over an hour to gain entry to the festival.
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# overcrowding - Monday 10 July, 2017
Researchers studied over 150,000 people for more than 45 years.
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# overcrowding - Monday 3 July, 2017
The INMO said that this was further evidence that our health service “simply cannot cope with the demands”.
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# overcrowding - Monday 8 May, 2017
A 16-year-old patient spent the night in a chair at the adult psychiatric unit last week.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
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# overcrowding - Thursday 2 February, 2017
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
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# overcrowding - Saturday 21 January, 2017
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
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# overcrowding - Thursday 19 January, 2017
The PAC will write to the HSE to demand a “full explanation” on the situation.
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# overcrowding - Monday 16 January, 2017
Officials said members of two drug gangs clashed violently after coming out of different parts of the prison.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
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# overcrowding - Friday 2 December, 2016
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
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# overcrowding - Friday 11 November, 2016
Patients are experiencing long delays at Mercy University Hospital’s emergency department.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 17 August, 2016
The delays in turnaround times are being blamed on overcrowding issues in hospitals.
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# overcrowding - Saturday 9 July, 2016
The 35-year-old man infected 82 people including other patients, healthcare workers and visitors.
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# overcrowding - Sunday 22 May, 2016
The prison was intended only as a temporary response to increased criminality during the famine, but remained open for 36 years.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
Yesterday there were 20 patients on trolleys at Tipperary General Hospital.
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# overcrowding - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
The decision was made at the Workplace relations Commission today.
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# overcrowding - Tuesday 23 February, 2016
Eddie Moloney died from a brain haemorrhage beside a blaring TV at University Hospital Limerick.
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# overcrowding - Monday 8 February, 2016
The minister said he accepted that overcrowding can also delay patient treatment.
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