{"id":679046,"date":"2026-11-09T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679046\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:30:10","slug":"we-keep-the-candle-of-hope-lit-jo-jo-dullards-family-marks-anniversary-of-disappearance-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679046\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We keep the candle of hope lit\u2019: Jo Jo Dullard\u2019s family marks anniversary of disappearance \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of missing woman Jo Jo Dullard<\/a> were joined by friends and locals at Kilkenny Castle to mark the 31st anniversary of her disappearance on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The memorial service in Co Kilkenny<\/a> comes just days after her loved ones said \u201cnot a day goes by where we don\u2019t think of her\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dullard, whose case was upgraded to murder in 2020, was last seen making a call from a phone box in Moone, Co Kildare<\/a>, on November 9th, 1995, while trying to make her way home from Dublin.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old had missed the bus to Kilkenny and boarded a coach to Naas, Co Kildare, where she planned to hitch a lift to her home in Callan.<\/p>\n

Investigations, including garda\u00ed<\/a> carrying out a number of digs earlier this year, have yet to wield any answers as to what happened to her.<\/p>\n

Her family, including her sister Kathleen Bergin, said they miss her terribly and hope that one day she will find her way home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep the candle of hope lit that our loved ones will find their way home,\u201d the family added.<\/p>\n

In June, officers from the Garda Serious Crime Review Team carried out a dig on a quarry on a site on the Wicklow and Kildare border for the missing Kilkenny woman as well as Deirdre Jacob.<\/p>\n

It had been alleged that convicted rapist Larry Murphy may have buried one of the women in a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of missing woman Jo Jo Dullard were joined by friends and locals at Kilkenny Castle to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,142676,61,60,142677,3770,12969,43],"class_list":["post-679046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-deirdre-jacob","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jo-jo-dullard","tag-kildare","tag-kilkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}