Jo Jo Dullard – Murder investigation

The Gardaí at Newbridge Garda Station are investigating the disappearance of twenty-one-year-old Jo Jo Dullard who is missing from her home since Friday 9th November 1995.

Jo Jo left her home in Callan, Co. Kilkenny at 8.30am on the morning of the 9th December to travel by bus to Dublin to collect her final social welfare payment from the Harold’s Cross post office.

She met some friends in Bruxelle’s Pub, just off Grafton Street and stayed with them all afternoon. She decided to head home to Callan arriving at Busarus Bus Station, Store Street at approximately 10pm. She missed her bus to Callan, so she boarded the Kildare bus instead and arrived in Naas at around 10.50pm. 

Jo Jo hitched a lift from a motorist in Naas who dropped her off in Kilcullen, County Kildare, near the edge of the motorway. At about 11.15pm Jo Jo hitched another lift from here and was dropped off at Moone Village, Kildare at 11.35pm.

Jo Jo called her friend from a phone box at Moone, County Kildare and explained that she missed her bus and was going to hitch her way home. She interrupted the conversation briefly and when she returned indicated to her friend that ‘’ she just got a lift’’. This was the last sighting of Jo Jo.

Josephine Dullard, known as Jo Jo, was born in Callan, County Kilkenny on the 25th of January 1974, she would be fifty two years old. This year will marks the 31st anniversary of her disappearance. She has not been heard of or seen since this night.

Appeal:

• Despite the fact that it has been over thirty years since Jo Jo disappeared, Gardaí are anxious that anyone coming forward with information will be treated in a sensitive manner.
• Do you have information that you are unknowingly holding onto that may assist the investigation.
• Did you at the time of Jo Jo’s disappearance speak to investigating Gardaí and now feel that there is some additional piece of information that you now want to impart.
• Jo Jo’s family are seeking closure, can you help them?