14 people on trolleys at Naas Hospital today

There were 14 people being treated on trolleys at Naas Hospital having been admitted through the accident and emergency department.

But the most overcrowded hospitals in the eastern region were Dublin's St James Hospital which had 50 patients on trolleys and St Vincent's and Tallaght Hospital, each of which has 44 people on trolleys.

At Portlaoise Hospital there were nine people on trolleys and Tullamore Hospital reported no overcrowding at all.

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