Gardaí are searching two houses and plan a search operation on open ground at a location in Co Wicklow near the Wicklow/Kildare border

A man in his 50s was arrested in Co Kildare on Monday and is being detained at a garda station in the county

The man was arrested in Co Kildare on Monday morning. He is being detained at a garda station in Co Kildare

The man was arrested in Co Kildare on Monday morning. He is being detained at a garda station in Co Kildare

Nobody has ever found definitive answers around what happened to the eight women who disappeared in the east of the country in the 90s

Twenty-one-year-old Jo Jo was last seen at around 11.37pm on November 9, 1995 when she left the village of Moone, Co Kildare while trying to make her way home to Callan, Co Kilkenny

An Garda Síochána say they are satisfied that serious harm came to Jo Jo Dullard on or about the night of 9 November 1995.

The decision by gardaí to upgrade the 25-year-old search for “Jo Jo” Dullard to a murder investigation will hopefully help “find answers” and “bring her home”, her family has said.

Kathleen Bergin, Jo Jo Dullard's sister: "You can help Jo Jo finish that journey and bring her home to us, and lay her to rest beside mam and dad."