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There were 92 patients waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick, alone.
The overcrowding has been made worse by flu season, according to the HSE.
The government has repeatedly said a recruitment freeze is not in operation.
The number is down from the more than 400 who were waiting for a bed yesterday morning.
The order was made by the Workplace Relations Commission.
The INMO said today that over 108,300 people have gone without beds so far this year.
Some 85 patients were without beds in University Hospital Limerick this morning.
This is only the second time that the annual figures have surpassed 100,000.
The number of patients on trolleys is the second highest ever recorded.
One in six midwifery posts are being left vacant.
Among the 9,439 patients were 45 children.
Members of the INMO voted 62% in favour of accepting the proposals.
Some 106 children were among those waiting without a bed.
The letter states the hospital is in a ‘constant state of overcrowding’.
It follows a Labour Court recommendation in the INMO’s favour.
There were 81 patients waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick according to the INMO.
A number of people wrote to Leo Varadkar during last month’s strike.
The negotiations come after nurses went on general strike for a number of days last month.
The ongoing nurses’ strike was suspended on Monday following a Labour Court recommendation on pay and conditions.
Finance Minister Donohoe has said that the Labour Court recommendations are “consistent with the public sector stability agreement”.
Strikes planned for this week were suspended after Labour Court intervention yesterday evening.
This evening’s Labour Court recommendation includes a number of proposals.
A formal hearing will take place at 3.30pm.
The anti-government protesters left the scene peacefully after gardaí arrived.
About 37,000 INMO members are engaging in strike action over pay and staffing levels.
The strike is set to enter its third week as supporters gather at the Garden of Remembrance this afternoon.
Talks broke up this evening with no commitments for the nurses to call off the action.
We spoke to nurses on the picket line at the Coombe maternity hospital.
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
This comes after nearly 40,000 INMO nurses and midwives took part in industrial action on Tuesday.
The INMO made the decision after a meeting of its executive council today.
Rightly or wrongly, valuable jobs do not automatically mean good pay or conditions.
Nurses and midwives held their first 24 hours of a full strike on Wednesday this week.
The dispute centres on pay, conditions and staffing levels.
All the ways you can support nurses, from a simple beep of your horn to bringing them lunch.
The nurses have gone on strike over what they call a recruitment and retention issue in the healthcare sector.
Nurses and midwives across the country will be on strike from 8am this morning.
Midwives didn’t pick the job for the money, but they want their skills to get the same recognition as other healthcare professionals, Maeve Gaynor writes.
The 24-hour stoppage looks likely to go ahead after Labour Court talks ended without agreement last night.
This would be the second time in the INMO’s hundred-year history that nurses or midwives go on strike.