The bank holiday weekend proved particularly busy for St Luke’s.
The General Hospital for Carlow and Kilkenny has 31 patients waiting on a bed this morning according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s daily Trolley Watch.
24 are in the local emergency department with seven on other wards.
It shares the third-highest figure with counterparts in Sligo with both behind University Hospital Limerick and Cork University Hospital.