Over 3,100 patients were without a bed this week throughout Ireland's hospital system.
According to the Irish Nurses' and Midwives' Organisation's figures, 548 people were waiting on trolleys yesterday - 16 of whom were children.
The organisation's general secretary notes "there hasn't been a day in the last two weeks" where numbers dropped below 545.
Phil Ní Sheaghdha says this is always expected after bank holiday weekends:
