A woman in her 60s had to be brought across the border to Northern Ireland after several hospitals in the Republic declined to admit her for an operation due to a lack of intensive care beds.
RTÉ News understands that the 64-year-old woman was a medical patient in Monaghan General Hospital earlier this week.
On Tuesday it emerged she needed a major operation after which she would require an intensive care bed.
Monaghan General Hospital was unable to carry out the procedure because an ICU bed was not available. Cavan General Hospital was then contacted, however, the woman could not be accommodated there for the same reason.
At least two Dublin hospitals were subsequently contacted but they also refused to take the woman also citing a lack of ICU beds as a reason.
Eventually the woman was brought to the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen where she is currently a patient.
