Jo Jo Dullard: Gardaí renew appeal 31 years after her disappearance

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information about Jo Jo Dullard, more than three decades after the 21-year-old vanished while travelling home to Callan, Co Kilkenny. Monday marks the anniversary of her disappearance in November 1995, a case that investigators later reclassified as murder. Dullard had travelled to Dublin and spent the evening at Bruxelles Bar on Harry Street. After missing the last bus home, she took a bus to Naas, Co Kildare, intending to hitchhike for the remaining part of the journey. She was given a lift from Naas to Kilcullen and then travelled onwards to Moone. At 11.37pm, she phoned her friend Mary Cullinan from Moone and said a car had stopped and she was going to accept a lift. It was the last known contact with her. Her sister Kathleen reported her missing the following morning, and a missing-person investigation was launched. In November 2020, 25 years after Dullard disappeared, An Garda Síochána said the case had been reclassified as a murder investigation. Gardaí said they were satisfied that serious harm had come to her on or around the night of November 9, 1995. No one has been brought to justice for her killing. Investigators have carried out several searches, including a search of open ground in Co Wicklow near the Kildare border earlier this year. Gardaí are now asking anyone with information about Dullard after 11.37pm that night to come forward, particularly people who recall seeing her at Bruxelles Bar or know about the lifts she took. She was carrying a Sanyo Stereo cassette player, model MGP21, and detectives also want to hear from anyone who saw it after her disappearance or received a similar device. They have appealed to people who were hitchhiking in the Moone area in late October or early November 1995, anyone who gave a hitchhiker a lift, and anyone who believes they may not have shared all they knew with gardaí. The force says it remains determined to provide answers for Dullard’s family.