Man (50s) arrested in connection with 1995 murder of Jo Jo Dullard

Gardaí investigating the disappearance and killing of Josephine “Jo Jo” Dullard have arrested a man on suspicion of her murder.
The case was upgraded from a missing persons inquiry to one of murder in 2020.
The man being questioned on Monday, who is in his 50s, was arrested in an early morning operation in Kildare and is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act. He is the first person to be arrested in connection with Ms Dullard’s disappearance since she vanished 29 years ago.
Searches are also being carried out at a house and land in Co Kildare.
The disappearance of the Kilkenny woman, who was last seen in Moone, Co Kildare, on November 9th, 1995, was classified as a murder investigation in 2020 with gardaí concluding she had “met her death through violent means”.
Speaking on the 29th anniversary of her disappearance, on Saturday, gardaí said they continued to appeal to the public for any information.
“Gardaí continue to appeal to any person who may have previously come forward who felt they could not provide gardaí with all the information they had in relation to this matter, to contact the investigation team again,” they said.
“Jo Jo’s family have now suffered from her disappearance for 29 years. An Garda Síochána is resolute in our determination to provide answers for Jo Jo’s family and bring her murderer to justice.”
Ms Dullard had been socialising in Bruxelles Bar in Dublin on November 9th before starting her journey home to Callan in Kilkenny.
She missed the last bus to Callan so got a bus to Naas before hitching two lifts to Moone. At 11.37pm she called a friend from a phone box in Moone to tell her she would be home soon and that a car had just stopped for her. That was the last time anyone heard from her.
At the time she was wearing blue jeans, black boots and a small rucksack. She was also carrying a black Sanyo cassette player and matching headphones.