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# Overcrowding

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'Even if I got a cheque for €100 million - I couldn't fix this overnight'
Varadkar to nurses: Planned strike will compromise patient safety
'It's absolute bedlam' - nurses' strike set to go ahead as 372 reported on hospital trolleys yesterday
"The most patient group of public servants ever known to mankind"
Health service scandals: Leo Varadkar faced some tough questions today
Watch: Not one, but two TDs have just been thrown out of the Dáil for getting very angry
'Strong possibility' of strike action after cancer patient left on trolley for five days
"There would be people who still don't know whether they've got a place or not"
Dublin hospital has highest number of patients on trolleys
Leo wants no more than 90 people on trolleys for more than nine hours by the end of 2015
76,666: the exact number of people waiting for hospital treatment right now
Hundreds on trolleys again, as hospitals deal with influx of flu cases
Beaumont to increase emergency staff levels, as deal reached with nurses
'Elderly patients are being kept on trolleys for days'
Nurses at Galway University Hospital are going on a work-to-rule
Nurses from Beaumont will protest at the gates of their own hospital today
Leo Varadkar 'needs to stop being a commentator'
'I'm sick to death of this problem' - Varadkar speaks out on A&E crisis
Irish hospitals aren't the only ones dealing with an overcrowding crisis
GPs: We can't take on hospital overflow - we're overwhelmed already
HSE: Don't come to Mullingar hospital ED unless absolutely necessary
Beaumont Hospital only admitting 'urgent' emergency cases due to overcrowding
There are currently 3,739 prisoners in Ireland - and we can't take many more
7,000 emergency department patients were on trolleys last month
"Deplorable overcrowding": Dozens on trolleys in Limerick hospital
'Overcrowded and clinically dangerous': Nurses criticise conditions at Mullingar hospital
Galway nurses to protest 'severe overcrowding' in Emergency Department
'Winter is coming' and nurses say Irish hospitals are not prepared
Nurses to protest at Drogheda Hospital today
Open thread: What's your experience with hospital overcrowding?
Nurses report 'dangerous' patient overcrowding at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
The UN says Ireland's prisons are 'inhuman'
Trolleys 'overflowing' onto corridors at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Women's prison population one third over capacity
Limerick prison still 'chronically overcrowded' despite report signalling improvements
Tallaght hospital to recruit 29 new staff
'I was asking to get out and nothing was done' - girl tells of Coppers crush
'HSE says hospital overcrowding is improving, that's not what we're hearing'
Reilly 'acknowledges discomfort and distress' of patients on trolleys
Almost 60,000 people waited on trolleys in Emergency Departments last year