Hundreds of nurses are protesting outside several hospitals as part of a series of planned nationwide pickets over nursing and midwifery shortages.
Demonstrations are taking place at Cork University Hospital as well as at University Hospital Limerick.
Nurses protesting at UHL highlighted the lack of a plan to cope with the expected patient increase in winter.
According to the Irish Nurse and Midwives Organisation there are currently 50 nursing vacancies at CUH, 30 at Cork University Maternity Hospital and a dozen in the hospital's emergency department.
Nationally the union is reporting over 2,000 nursing and midwifery vacancies.
The INMO says there are 52 people on trolleys in the emergency department and on wards at Cork University Hospital.
Nurses protest at University hospital Limerick at the lack of a plan to cope with the expected patient increase in Winter.
— Cathy Halloran (@HalloranCathy) September 11, 2018
August was the worst on record for overcrowding pic.twitter.com/45eE11sWuN
