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An emergency consultant who declined to attend University Hospital Limerick (UHL), despite a request from a nurse manager concerned about a spiralling overcrowding crisis, told the inquest into the death of Clare teen Aoife Johnston (16) that overcrowding had left the emergency department resembling "a death trap" that weekend.
The older sister of Clare teen Aoife Johnston (16) wept this afternoon as she spoke of her devastation at not being able to say a final goodbye to her baby sister.