Jo Jo Dullard’s sister Mary Phelan, right, in November 1998 with her husband Martin and their children with the memorial stone beside the phone box from which Jo Jo made her last call, in Moone, Co Kildare. Photograph: John Cogill
The family of Kilkenny woman Josephine “Jo Jo” Dullard, who is presumed murdered, have asked members of the public to join them to mark the 30th anniversary of her disappearance later today.
The 21-year-old was last seen at approximately 11.37pm on November 9th, 1995, in the village of Moone, Co Kildare, while attempting to make her way home to Callan, Co Kilkenny.
Ms Dullard had missed the last direct bus back to Kilkenny and had been hitching a lift from Naas, Co Kildare, after getting a bus to the town. The young woman was using a public phone in Moone when she told a friend, Mary Cullinane, that a car had stopped and she was going to get a lift. That was the last known sighting of her.
Ms Dullard was the youngest of five siblings.
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