Overview
- Specialist units led by the Serious Crime Review Team, with the National Bureau and Technical Bureau, are conducting the operation with support from Kildare gardaí.
- Excavation at Castleruddery Upper has focused on a single marked area where a digger removed substantial soil before work paused overnight.
- Investigators say this is the first formal search at the site that links the Dullard and Jacob cases to the same location.
- Media report the renewed search followed an anonymous tip describing suspicious burial activity at the quarry.
- Senior sources say Larry Murphy is being re-examined due to the site’s proximity to his former home, with no new charges announced as gardaí update both families and renew public appeals for information.