The record number of hospital patients on trolleys is a warning to the government to take corrective action to solve the problem.
Figures for last month from the INMO found 11,856 patients were left on trolleys, including 300 children.
The numbers were higher than January which saw the worst levels of daily hospital overcrowding since the INMO began counting trolleys.
Cork University Hospital was the second most overcrowded hospital in the country last month.
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An Opposition Bill to abolish the three-day waiting period for an abortion passed in the Dáil last night.
The proposed legislation was brought forward by People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith.
The result of the vote was 67 for and 64 against, with eight abstentions.
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A young man, believed to be in his late teens, has died in a jet-skiing accident on Lough Derg in Co. Clare.
Two girls who were also on the jet ski managed to swim to safety after it flipped over and threw them into the water near the Bridge in Killaloe Co Clare yesterday evening.
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A Cork man who will walk from Dublin to Cork over the next week says he wouldn’t have been able to take on the challenge if he was still a smoker.
Colm Doyle from Glenville will begin the 240 kilometre walk at 9am this morning to raise money for the Cork-based charity My Canine Companion who provide autism service dogs.
Colm will leave Liffey Valley at 9am with a group and aims to be in Mallow a week later after walking 240 kilometres along the old N8 road, something he says would not have been possible just six months ago before he quit a 30-a-day smoking habit.
