A Kilmaley grandmother has described as "horrendous", the conditions she experienced in the Emergency Department of the region's main hospital last night.
The Dooradoyle facility is in the spotlight once again following a Prime Time Investigtion which secretly filmed there and at a number of other hospitals around the country.
The issues of Health and particularly overcrowding at the region's main hospital have come up time and again during this general election campaign.
And it's back in focus again following last night's documentary, which featured footage secretly filmed at University Hospital Limerick and a number of other hospitals around the country.
The programme also spoke to the families of patients who attended the Dooradoyle facility, who claimed their relatives were treated 'like dogs' and staff were being forced to work in terrible conditions.
Teresa from Kilmaley attended the ED with her 3 week old granddaughter last night and she's told Clare FM's Morning Focus of her experience there.
She believes "it's like a third world country" and claims there were "23 children waiting to be seen at ten o'clock last night" and that "you wouldn't put cows" into similar circumstances.
UL Hospitals Group has apologised to patients, saying the hosptial is "not fit for purpose" but that the recent opening of additional beds and the hiring of staff as well as the opening of a new state-of-the-art facility next year will help ease overcrowding there.
The level of overcrowding remains relatively low in comparison to other hospitals today with figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation showing that there's 22 people waiting for beds, 12 of those in the Emergency Department.
Independent General Election candidate Ann Norton is calling for the re-opening of the Emergency Department at Ennis General Hospital to deal with the overcrowding crisis.
Independent candidate Dr. Michael Harty is doubtful that the HSE will re-open the A&E in Ennis but he says an expansion of the range of services offered there needs to be considered.
