375 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 221 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital

A report published by the Mental Health Commission (MHC) also found that one in five of the services that administered ECT without consent during 2024 failed to comply with the rules governing the use of the therapy.

The most overcrowded hospital was University Hospital Limerick

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has called on the Health Service Executive to end the moratorium on recruiting frontline patient-facing staff