Newsround: what Tuesday's papers say

The top stories in Tuesday's newspapers:

THE IRISH TIMES

- The paper leads with Northern Ireland, reporting that Sinn Féin has raised the prospect of the collapse of Stormont and Assembly elections being called if DUP leader Arlene Foster does not stand aside as First Minister.

- Its front page also carries a story on property prices which it says are expected to rise by at least eight per cent this year with double-digit growth a distinct possibility as the help-to-buy scheme, along with looser mortgage lending rules and constrained supply, drive increases across the country.

- Three hospitals in the south and west have urged the public to attend only in the case of genuine emergencies as they battle with overcrowding and an upsurge in cases of seasonal flu. Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway issued its warning just hours before Minister for Communications Denis Naughten was admitted yesterday.

- Dublin's rubbish problems have worsened but Galvone in Limerick is the state's dirtiest district, according to an Irish Business Against Litter survey, which noted a disappointing deterioration in the cleanliness of the capital with a high number of blackspots in Dublin's north innner city.

FINANCIAL TIMES

- Airbnb will miss out on more than $400 million worth of bookings in London this year as it enforces its 90-night limit for hosts there, according to data that underpin the growing cost of regulatory compliance for the high-profile Silicon Valley startup.

- The paper front page also reports that economists are even more worried about the consequences of Brexit than they were a year ago despite the UK economy showing little obvious damage after the vote to the leave the EU in June. In a related development, British employers have asked the UK government to provide reassurance that staff hired since the referendum will not be ejected when the UK leaves the EU.

- The FT Big Read is about Russia, reporting that using loans from the Russian central bank, Otkritie doubled its assets in a single transaction and became the country's largest private bank almost overnight but critics now worry that it has become 'too big to fail'.

- This year's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas is set to feature a cornucopia of technological innovation from connected fridges to drones, smartwatches and virtual reality headsets, the paper reports in its Companies & Markets section.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- Detectives are conducting a fresh round of interviews about the murder of prison officer Brian Stack as gardaí try to identify the senior IRA figure who admitted the Provos were behind the 1983 killing.

- The volume of farm land sold at auction declined by 30 per cent last year, the paper says, as the uncertainty in agriculture prompted many sellers of land to shun the auction room in favour of private-treaty sales and long-term lease agreements.

- The Central Bank has begun laying the groundwork to accommodate a significant number of London-based financial services firms looking to move operations to Dublin in the wake of Brexit.

- In its business section, the paper takes stock of how the world's markets fared in 2016 and how this year may shape up.

IRISH EXAMINER

- The paper also leads with house prices, reporting that they have risen by 34 per cent nationally, or by more than €56,000 on average, since their lowest point in 2013 and are set to keep rising as demand continues to outstrip supply.

- On its front page, it also carries a story that Transport Minister Shane Ross has accused his coalition partners Fine Gael of treating him and his Independent Alliance colleagues as "an inconvenience" and trying to isolate them at cabinet.

- Ireland is toward the top of the EU table for shootings and firearms seizures, according to one of the first studies of its type in Europe. Data covering the period from 2010 to 2015 showed there were 194 shootings in Ireland, with 76 deaths as a result, along with 267 seizures of firearms.

- In its business section, the paper reports that the digital field may be the first trade wars battleground with any attempts by the EU Commission to rein in the expansion of US technology firms likely to trouble the administration of US president-elect Donald Trump.