The Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was “akin to a war zone” on the weekend that 16-year-old sepsis patient Aoife Johnston died there. That’s what Clinical Nurse Manager Katherine Skelly told the inquest into Aoife’s death yesterday. 

But more than a year after her passing, has anything been done to address the overcrowding crisis?  We heard from Professor Conor Deasy, President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine.