WATCH: Gardai speak from Deirdre Jacob search site after ‘suspicious activity’ [Video]

Senior gardaí have addressed the media at a search site identified in relation to the disappearance of Newbridge woman Deirdre Jacob in 1998.

Inspector John Fitzgerald from Kildare Town Garda Station spoke to journalists near the site at Taggartstown in rural Co Kildare, close to the Wicklow border.

A search began this morning in relation to the missing Kildare woman and possibly other women who went missing in the Leinster area in the 1990s. 

Inspector Fitzgerald indicated that the search and dig would take three weeks and that the operation comes on foot of ‘credible information’ which emerged during a review of previous evidence connected with Deirdre’s disappearance. He said upon review this information “was more relevant than maybe initially thought.”

It’s understood suspicious activity was witnessed in the area around the time of Deirdre Jacob’s disappearance in 1998.  Her case was upgraded to a murder investigation three years ago.

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