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

The strategy was published in recent days.

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

The hospital was very busy over the Bank Holiday weekend.