It brings the total number of patients waiting on trolleys locally to 102.

These trolley figures come from INMO.

Sinn Fein TD's are now calling for a multi-annual capacity plan from the Minister for Health.

Sligo University Hospital is the second most over crowded hospital in the country today, with 45 people waiting in the Emergency Department.

There has been concern in the last year that the mobile BreastCheck unit hasn't been coming to Carrick-on-Shannon

Dr Fergal Hickey says that transferring patients to facilities like Roscommon and Ennis where the the necessary services aren't available, could put them at risk.

Sligo hospital has seen huge overcrowding during the last year leading to over 34 consultants in the facility to write a letter to the Taoiseach expressing their concern

Sligo hospital has had one of the highest overcrowding rates in the country consistently for the past year