Up to a thousand hospital patients could be treated on trolleys in a single day in the weeks ahead.
That's the warning from the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association, as overcrowding reaches record levels.
TDs are facing a call to return to Leinster House immediately, to deal with the crisis.
They're not due back from their Christmas break for another two weeks - but independent Sligo /Leitrim TD Marian Harkin says this issue cannot wait until then….
