Gardaí seek skull in O’Hara grid search

A 50m grid search will continue over the coming days to locate the rest of Elaine O’Hara’s remains — with gardaí eager to find a neck bone and her skull.

Experts will be able to confirm whether or not Ms O’Hara was strangled if they can retrieve her hyoid bone. This neck bone breaks if a person is strangled from the front. They also want to locate her skull, to check for any signs of violence.

Gardaí are trying to determine how the 36-year-old childcare assistant died and how she travelled between three different sites in Dublin and Wicklow.