# Overcrowding

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GPs: We can't take on hospital overflow - we're overwhelmed already

Comments from GPs come after it emerged there are record numbers of people waiting on trollies in hospitals around the country.

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Jan 7th 2015, 6:30 AM

# Overcrowded

HSE: Don't come to Mullingar hospital ED unless absolutely necessary

The hospital said it needs the facilities it has to deal with any emergencies that might arise later this evening.

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Jan 4th 2015, 2:40 PM

# Emergency Department

Beaumont Hospital only admitting 'urgent' emergency cases due to overcrowding

Yesterday there were 45 people on trolleys.

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Dec 13th 2014, 7:55 PM

# Overcrowding

There are currently 3,739 prisoners in Ireland - and we can't take many more

The average capacity is 91%.

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Dec 1st 2014, 6:45 AM

# Overcrowding

7,000 emergency department patients were on trolleys last month

The INMO said it is concerned about hospitals coping with the winter demand.

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Nov 6th 2014, 3:06 PM

# Trolleywatch

"Deplorable overcrowding": Dozens on trolleys in Limerick hospital

The INMO said today that the Major Emergency Plan should have been implemented at the hospital today, with 47 people on trolleys in the Emergency Department this morning.

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Sep 29th 2014, 7:25 PM

# midlands regional

'Overcrowded and clinically dangerous': Nurses criticise conditions at Mullingar hospital

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.

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Sep 29th 2014, 10:42 AM

# Hospitals

Galway nurses to protest 'severe overcrowding' in Emergency Department

The INMO said today nurses are finishing shifts “in a distressed state, experiencing burnout and frustration at the lack of action”.

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Sep 15th 2014, 6:55 PM

# Overcrowding

'Winter is coming' and nurses say Irish hospitals are not prepared

Figures show there was a 19% increase in the number of patients on trolleys compared to last year.

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Sep 13th 2014, 5:00 PM

# Overcrowding

Nurses to protest at Drogheda Hospital today

Nurses say overcrowding levels are dangerous.

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Aug 20th 2014, 12:45 PM

# share your story

Open thread: What's your experience with hospital overcrowding?

Just last month more than 5,500 patients admitted found themselves on a trolley or in an emergency department.

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Aug 8th 2014, 12:00 PM

# Our Lady of Lourdes

Nurses report 'dangerous' patient overcrowding at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

INMO is calling for the Drogheda hospital’s emergency department to be taken off call for 48 hours to ease the strain.

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Jul 31st 2014, 7:03 PM

# Overcrowding

The UN says Ireland's prisons are 'inhuman'

“Chronic” overcrowding, “poor” cell conditions and the “inhuman” practice of slopping out – the UN says our prisons really need to step up.

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Jul 16th 2014, 6:40 AM

# Overcrowding

Trolleys 'overflowing' onto corridors at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

The HSE acknowledged that the hospital was “exceptionally busy” today and said measures have been put in place to address the high patient numbers.

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Mar 11th 2014, 12:42 PM

# Overcrowding

Women's prison population one third over capacity

Poor living conditions and substandard visiting conditions in state’s two female prisons.

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Mar 7th 2014, 5:30 PM

# full capacity

Limerick prison still 'chronically overcrowded' despite report signalling improvements

Today Minister Shatter said a new wing in the prison will be built with capacity for 100 male and 50 female prisoners.

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Mar 5th 2014, 8:10 PM

# hiring

Tallaght hospital to recruit 29 new staff

The decision was made after a meeting in the hospital this morning.

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Feb 7th 2014, 3:29 PM

# Messy Monday

'I was asking to get out and nothing was done' - girl tells of Coppers crush

With seven people having been injured, one reveller told a radio station what the scene was like.

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Jan 28th 2014, 4:04 PM

# RISKY BUSINESS

'HSE says hospital overcrowding is improving, that's not what we're hearing'

The IAEM says the number of trolley inpatients in wards has increased since last year, not decreased.

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Jan 24th 2014, 11:22 AM

# Trolleys

Reilly 'acknowledges discomfort and distress' of patients on trolleys

Reilly was challenged by Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher in the Dáil today after it emerged almost 400 people were on trolleys across the country in one day this week.

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Jan 22nd 2014, 2:14 PM

# Overcrowding

Almost 60,000 people waited on trolleys in Emergency Departments last year

New figures show the level of overcrowding at hospitals around the country.

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Jan 9th 2014, 10:09 PM

# Overcrowding

374: Number of patients on hospital trolleys at highest in months

There are 374 patients on trolleys in Ireland today – the highest figure since April last year.

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Jan 8th 2014, 8:53 PM

# Overcrowding

Big increase in number of women being sent to jail

The number of women being sent to jail has increased by one third in the last three years, while the number of men being imprisoned has levelled off.

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Nov 21st 2013, 8:15 AM

# mccollum connolly

'Peru 2' transferred to prison notorious for overcrowding

Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid have been transferred from a low security facility, and could now be sharing a cell with as many as 38 other inmates.

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Oct 14th 2013, 10:40 AM

# Prison

'Constant and unacceptable level of overcrowding' at Cork prison

In a series of reports, one committee boasted about the lack of suicide attempts at one prison in Dublin.

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Jun 7th 2013, 4:25 PM

# Prison

Family of Gary Douch plead for closure in Mountjoy death probe

New hearings as part of an inquiry into the circumstances of his death are to be held.

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Jun 2nd 2013, 4:06 PM

# Healthscare

A&E wards could be shut over looming staff shortages, doctors warn

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine says emergency wards are already stretched, and it’ll get worse in July…

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May 23rd 2013, 8:02 PM

# Ward Watch

Nurses to track hospital overcrowding

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is to launch Ward Watch, a new initiative, this morning.

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Apr 8th 2013, 7:20 AM

# Overcrowding

Emergency medics lash out as trolley numbers hit eight-month high

The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine criticises the failure to end waits on trolleys, as 385 wait for admission.

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Jan 9th 2013, 3:39 PM

# Cuts

'Grave concerns' over controversial HSE plan to fire hospital staff

The HSE has produced a report which proposes getting rid of all agency staff in three hospitals – but the plan has drawn harsh criticism.

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Aug 22nd 2012, 12:42 PM

# Prisons

Prisoners on temporary release will 'pose no risk to public' insists Shatter

Justice Minister Alan Shatter was responding to concerns over a new scheme that will see 150 prisoners on temporary release at any one time.

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May 1st 2012, 8:27 AM

# Prisons

Dramatic 45 per cent increase in numbers sent to prison

However, the number of prison staff has actually fallen over the last five years.

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Apr 30th 2012, 6:27 PM

# Overcrowding

Hospital warns of overcrowding crisis - and asks public to stay away

The Mid Western Regional Hospital has said patients should only come to its emergency department in cases of “urgent need”.

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Mar 29th 2012, 11:16 AM

Voices

Column: 7 essential ways to fix our broken prison system

Our prisons have become pressure cookers, bursting at the seams and increasingly difficult to police. Eoin O’Carroll sets out new ideas for reform.

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Mar 15th 2012, 7:30 PM

# Prisons

Call for radical change in Irish prison policy

A report by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice shows the extent of overcrowding and drug-use in Irish prisons. There was an average of 800 people in prison per day in 1970 – this grew to 4,290 in 2010.

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Mar 15th 2012, 10:59 AM

# Prisons

Inspector's report finds Limerick Prison 'has made progress'

A report by the Inspector of Prisons earlier this year had found that Limerick Prison was not fit for purpose and needed a ‘regime change’.

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Mar 12th 2012, 7:09 PM

# Prison Conditions

Government considering construction of replacement Cork prison

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter says that building a new prison facility in Cork could comprehensively tackle overcrowding and the ongoing practice of ‘slopping out’.

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Feb 29th 2012, 1:05 PM