We deliver comprehensive emergency care across the full spectrum of illness and injury — from minor presentations to critically unwell patients requiring resuscitation and transfer.

Our department works closely with regional services including pre-hospital teams, specialist centres, and community care pathways

Open All Hours

The Emergency Department (ED) is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Patients of all age groups attend with a wide variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, toxicological and psychosocial presentations.

In 2025, we saw and treated approximately 50,000 patients

The ED has access to a wide array of hospital specialists. We work closely with our colleagues in these specialties to provide the best care for our patients

• Anaesthesia

• Intensive Care Medicine

• Cardiology

• Dermatology

• Elderly Medicine

• Endocrinology

• ENT surgery

• Gastroenterology

• General Surgery

• Haematology

• Histopathology

• Internal Medicine

• Microbiology

• Neurology

• Obstetrics & Gynaecology

• Oncology

• Ophthalmology

• Orthopaedic Surgery

• Paediatrics

• Palliative Care Medicine

• Psychiatry

• Radiology (including Interventional Radiology)

• Renal Medicine

• Respiratory Medicine

• Rheumatology

• Urology

Access to other Specialties

Other specialists are available in other hospitals in Ireland. We transfer patients when required to Regional or National Centers.

• Plastic Surgery – Galway University Hospital, Galway

• Interventional Cardiology – Galway University Hospital, Galway

• Maxillofacial Surgery – Galway University Hospital, Galway

• Neurosurgery – Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin

• Interventional Neuroradiology – Beaumont Hospital, Dublin

• Vascular Surgery – Galway University Hospital, Galway

• Hyperbaric Medicine – Cork University Hospital, Cork

• Cardiothoracic Surgery – Galway University Hospital, Galway

• Spinal Surgery – Mater Hospital, Dublin

• Complex Burns – St James’s Hospital, Dublin

• Complex Paediatrics or Paediatric Surgery – Crumlin Children’s Hospital or Temple St Children’s Hospital

Our service is supported by staff from other hospital departments

Physiotherapists

Dentists

Occupational Therapists

Mental Health Liaison

Pharmacists

Radiographers

Laboratory Scientists

Social Workers

Cardiac Investigations 

Chaplaincy