On the 28th July 1998, 18-year-old college student Deirdre Jacob walked into Newbridge town. She was to start her second year of teacher training at St. Mary’s College in Strawberry Hill, London and was getting a bank draft to send to a college friend in London for their rent deposit.
She went to the bank to get the draft, then the local post office and visited her grandmother at her shop before heading home to Roseberry just outside the town. She was last seen shortly after 3pm at the gate of the family home outside Newbridge. Despite an intensive investigation, including searches and appeals there has been no trace of Deirdre.
Description of Deirdre:
- Height - approximately 5ft 3inch (160cms)
- Build - slim build
- Hair - dark chin-length
Clothing:
- Navy V-neck T-shirt with while trim
- Navy dark jeans and blue Nike runners.
- A distinctive black satchel type bag with long shoulder straps and the word CAT in large yellow capital letters on the side. The black satchel bag has never been located.
Garda Appeal:
- Deirdre’s family and Gardaí are reaching out to the general public for information concerning her disappearance and what is now being treated as a Murder Investigation
- Did you see Deirdre as she walked from Newbridge town to Roseberry, Newbridge – making her way home?
- Did you interact with or see Deirdre on the 28th July 1998 especially in the AIB, Post Office or along her route that day?
- Do you have any information in relation to the ‘CAT’ satchel bag?
- Have you held on to some piece of information that may assist the investigation? If so we would like to assure you that we will be treated with empathy and compassion. The case remains open and active and your help could be the piece that makes all the difference?
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?