Trolley Watch number for Mullingar today: nine

There are nine patients on trolleys at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, today.

According to the daily Trolley Watch survey conducted by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the patients are all in the Emergency Department (ED).

Today's national total is 195, of whom 151 are on EDs, and of whom three are younger than 16.

The hospital with the highest number of patients on trolleys today is University Hospital Limerick, where there are 37 - of whom 25 are in the ED.

The number for the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore is five.