According to the IHCA, many patients will have often made alternative arrangements due to the length of time on the waiting list or may no longer be suitable for treatment.

Sligo University Hospital and the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar are among the busiest facilities in the country.

The capacity of the emergency department is set to be increased and the works are due to take 2 weeks to complete.

Galway University Hospital has the second highest figure nationally at 61,

Deirdre Finn was an off-duty member of An Garda Siochána and was attached to Dun Laoghaire Station in Dublin.

Sligo University Hospital currently holds the highest number of patients waiting locally in Emergency Departments, with 36 people on trolleys or waiting in wards.

Nationally, 72-thousand 391 people have gone without a bed in Irish hospitals in 2023.

Gardai are asking that footage of this collision is not shared across social media or messaging apps.