The Tánaiste says the government will honour the terms of the Croke Park Agreement.

Eamon Gilmore says the deal has successfully delivered savings in the public sector and that the government is not the sort to break agreements.

Earlier the Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton said the government has to look ahead to a successor to the deal.

But speaking in Dublin this morning Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said there is one Croke Park Agreement and the government is committed to it.

“There is one agreement – and we’re going to honour that agreement” he said.

“The agreement is…in writing, it’s on paper; it has 18 more months to run, or thereabouts and we’re going to honour that agreement”.

“It has delivered, and (when) the government makes an agreement it keeps it” he added.

A 39-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Dublin city centre.

The body of the man was found in an apartment on Prussia Street in Stoneybatter on Saturday.

Bernard Locke with an address at the same apartment block appeared before Dublin District Court this morning charged with the murder of 53-year-old Christopher Jackson.

The body of Mr. Jackson was found with multiple stab wounds in a flat at 82 Prussia Street in Dublin city centre on Saturday evening.

His body had been concealed in a plastic bag in wardrobe at the flat for approximately 2 days.

A man was arrested about 15 minutes after the discovery of Mr. Jackson’s remains.

And when charged this morning he replied ‘no response’.

He is due to appear before Cloverhill District Court on Thursday September 13th.

Investigators have found what has been described as a potentially explosive substance at the home of a British family shot dead in France last week.

It is not clear what kind of substances are involved.

An army bomb disposal team is now at the house in Claygate in Surrey and neighbouring homes have been evacuated.

Saad al-Hilli, his wife, mother-in-law and a French cyclist were shot dead in the French Alps last Wednesday.

Their 7-year-old daughter Zainab survived the killings and remains under sedation.

The French prosecutors office says she is unable to speak to investigators at this point.

Her 4-year-old sister Zeena also survived the attack.

Chris Hunter is a former army bomb disposal expert.

He describes what could be happening at the house in Surrey.

“It sounds like it’s a – what we call – a search-assist task” he said.

“(This is) where the bomb disposal team is called out in support of the police; the police have been into the property, they’ve seen something that’s left them feeling a little bit uneasy”.

“It could potentially be an explosive substance” he added.

There are calls for more to be done to tackle the stigma which still surrounds mental health problems here.

The issue has been raised by health professionals today to mark  World Suicide Awareness Day.

New research also suggests that a lack of understanding of mental health problems is fuelling the stigma on this issue.

Newstalk’s Jack Quann has more.