A digger works on the excavation site on the fourth day of searching for the remains of Deirdre Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard at a quarry site in Co Wicklow near the Kildare border. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell/©RollingNews.ie
The headline news this week turned a key to another place and time, locked in a corner of my mind.
A lost time of phone boxes, hitchhikers, bank drafts, personal stereos, of missed last buses. A place where lads went out lamping for want of something to do, in the borderlands just beyond the Pale.
This past came rushing at me on hearing of the dig being carried out back at home in west Wicklow. The gardaí connected it to the investigation into two of Ireland’s most high-profile unsolved criminal cases, the disappearance of Deirdre Jacob and Josephine “Jo Jo” Dul
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