There are fresh calls for a review of local emergency care, amid the latest bout of significant overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.
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Daily figures from the INMO show there are 45 patients on trolleys or in above-capacity wards at Dooradoyle, which is once more the highest number of any hospital in Ireland.
Visiting restrictions remain in place at UHL in an effort to curb an outbreak of the flu.
A new A&E unit is under construction at the hospital, but Kilmaley Fianna Fáil Councillor and member of the Regional Health Forum Tom McNamara feels the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Units at Ennis and Nenagh may need to be reviewed.
