St. Vincent's University Hospital

The unit was first recommended all the way back in 2017.

And the suggestion was to locate it on the grounds of St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin.

But rather incredibly, almost 10 years on from that point, we're in the exact same position.

There are plans for the unit.

Almost 700 patients were waiting for a hospital bed this morning, that's according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Although the numbers provided by the HSE are lower, they too highlight particular problems in St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin and in Cork, Galway and Sligo.

As usual, the hospital with by far the highest number of people waiting for admission was University Hospital Limerick.

According to the INMO, this level of emergency department overcrowding is a safety risk and hospitals with severe overcrowding should declare a major incident.

The independent TD for Kerry was sitting in his car on Cork Street in Dublin when he was approached by a man who assaulted him through the window of the vehicle.

Mr Healy Ray was taken by Gardaí to Kevin Street Gardaí station and transferred by ambulance to St Vincent's University Hospital.

He received several stitches for injuries to his face and mouth and was discharged on Wednesday night at around 9pm.

The man accused of the assault will appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice at 10.30 this morning.

due before a sitting of Dublin District Court this morning, charged in relation to the assault of Michael Healy-Ray earlier this week.

At around 4.10pm on Wednesday, the independent TD for Kerry was sitting in his car on Cork Street in Dublin when he was approached by a man who assaulted him through the window of the vehicle.

Mr Healy Ray was taken by Gardaí to Kevin Street Gardaí station and transferred by ambulance to St Vincent's University Hospital.

He received several stitches for injuries to his face and mouth and was discharged on Wednesday night at around 9pm.

It's understood Michael Healy-Ray was hit a number of times in the assault before the perpetrator fled.

Now Gardaí were alerted by other motorists who were on the road and because the incident happened close to Kevin Street Gardaí station, Gardaí were on the scene within a couple of minutes and the Kerry politician was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

He received stitches and he is said to be doing well.

Now, speaking in the Dáil yesterday, his brother Danny Healy-Ray confirmed that someone hit him in the window when he was stopped on the road.

And we understand that Danny Healy-Ray is out of hospital now.

He's said to be doing well.

He did go to St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin where he did receive a stitcher.

So we wish him well and a speedy recovery to Michael Healy-Ray, the Kerry TD.

I'm a consultant anaesthetist living and working in Dublin.

About 50% of my job is obstetrics and the rest is working in a large university teaching hospital called St. Vincent's in Dublin.

And I guess my claim to fame is I have a few interesting outside of medicine interests rather than a fairly average career as an anaesthetist in medicine.

Thank you so much for joining us, Roger.

I saw a Dr. John Legg speak.

He's a consultant out of St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin.

And he says, great idea to be putting helmets on everybody on an e-scooter.

But he says, you need to look at the specification.