It comes as the HSE asks people to avoid attending Emergency Departments unless necessary.

Patients are being asked to consider consulting a pharmacist, a GP or attending a minor injury unit before going to an Emergency Department.

Several emergency departments in the region saw their trolley numbers double.

Nationally, 607 people are waiting at hospitals across the country.

The hospital is upgrading its ITC computer systems in the Emergency Department this weekend in what management say are necessary works

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

100,195 patients so far this year have been placed on seats or trolleys nationwide.