A 55-YEAR-OLD man who was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Jo Jo Dullard, who went missing in November 1995, has been released without charge.
The man is believed to be one of the last people to see her alive.
Investigating gardaí are continuing to carry out a search operation on open ground at a location in Co Wicklow near the Wicklow/Kildare border.
Jo Jo’s family have been campaigning for information since her disappearance 29 years ago.
Gardaí upgraded their investigation into her disappearance to a murder investigation in October 2020.
A renewed appeal for information was released by gardaí last Friday to mark the 29th anniversary of Jo Jo’s disappearance.
Jo Jo was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny, on 25 January 1974 and was 21 years old when she went missing.
She left her home in Callan at 8.30am on Thursday 9 November 1995 to travel by bus to Dublin.
Jo Jo met friends in Bruxelles Pub on Harry Street, just off Grafton Street, and stayed with them for the afternoon. She missed the last bus home to Kilkenny that evening and instead at 10pm boarded a bus to Naas, Co Kildare.
She then intended to hitch hike the rest of the way home to Callan, in Co Kilkenny. She hitched a lift from Naas to the slip road on the M9 motorway at Kilcullen, Co Kildare.
At approximately 11.15pm, Jo Jo hitched another lift to Moone, Co Kildare. In Moone, Jo Jo made a telephone call in a phone box to her friend Mary Cullinan at 11.37pm.
During that call, Jo Jo told Mary that a car had stopped for her and she was going to take the lift. This was the last known interaction with Jo Jo.
The following morning, Friday 10 November 1995, Jo Jo’s sister Kathleen reported her missing and gardaí launched an investigation.
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