What the papers say: Tuesday's front pages

Ellen O'Donoghue

The kidnapping of Irish aid worker Gena Heraty from an orphanage she oversees in Haiti features heavily on Irish front pages on Tuesday morning.

The Irish Times lead with the HSE planning to collect detailed data on abortion, the Probation Service training staff to deal with radicalised criminals engaged in violent extremism, and there being no ransom demands as of yet for Gena Heraty, who was kidnapped from an orphanage she oversees in Haiti.

The Irish Examiner lead with 22,000 homes being listed for short rentals while there are only 1,800 properties available for long-term tenants, the kidnapping of Irish woman Gena Heraty in Haiti, two people being dead following separate assaults, and nearly 400 inmates being classified as unlawfully at large over the last decade after not returning to custody.

The Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Mail lead with the kidnapping of Irish aid worker Gena Heraty from an orphanage in Haiti.

The Irish Independent lead with the family of a Cavan-based woman saying they are devastated after she was facilitated in ending her life by a controversial Swiss clinic without her family being informed.

The Echo lead with 231 teaching posts being unfilled in Cork, and a group representing survivors of Magdalene laundries requesting that An Coimisiún Pleanála attach multiple conditions to any planning permission granted to a massive student accommodation development proposed for the Cork site of a former convent, orphanage and Magdalene laundry.

The Belfast Telegraph lead with Northern Ireland's Communities Minister saying a drag queen storytelling event for children in a Belfast library should not have taken place.

The Irish Daily Star lead with the death of Ian Walsh in Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, after his body was discovered on Monday at his home.

The Herald lead with a taxi man being the victim of a racist attack in Ballymun.