As gardaí search an area in Co Wicklow as part of the murder investigation into missing woman Jo Jo Dullard, what is known about her disappearance?
Jo Jo Dullard went missing from Moone, Co Kildare in 1995.
The 21-year-old was working in Callan, Co Kilkenny and travelled to Dublin on Thursday 9 November, where she spent time in Bruxelles Bar on Harry Street, just off Grafton Street.
She missed the last direct bus home that night, so she got a bus to Naas, Co Kildare and then hitched two lifts to get to Moone, a small village in south Co Kildare near the border with Wicklow.
In Moone, Ms Dullard made a telephone call to her friend Mary Cullinan at 11.37pm.
During that call, Ms Dullard told Ms Cullinan that a car had stopped for her, and she was going to take the lift.
This was the last known interaction with Jo Jo Dullard.
Gardaí believe that serious harm came to Ms Dullard on or around the night of 9 November.
Ms Dullard had her Sanyo stereo cassette player (model MGP21) with her at the time of her disappearance.
On Friday 10 November 1995, Ms Dullard's sister Kathleen reported her missing and a missing persons investigation commenced.
Her disappearance has been the subject of a sustained garda investigation, by the investigation team based at Naas Garda Station. And has been subject to ongoing review by the Serious Crime Review Team, National Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance, in November 2020, gardaí confirmed that her disappearance was now classified as a murder investigation as they believed that serious harm had come to Ms Dullard.
Today, gardaí announced that they were searching open ground at a location near the Wicklow/Kildare border for both Jo Jo Dullard and another missing woman, Deirdre Jacob.
Gardaí have appealed to anyone with any information, "no matter how small or insignificant you might believe it to be" to contact any garda station.
Anyone who wishes to provide information confidentially can contact the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
Missing to murder: The long search to find Jo Jo Dullard
Jo Jo Dullard is known to so many now as an unrecovered murder victim, forever linked with a phone-box in Moone, Co Kildare.
To her family, Jo Jo was a beloved youngest in a family of five. As well as Mary and Kathleen, Jo Jo also had another sister Nora, and a big brother Tom.
She loved music. She was a big fan of George Michael, Michael Jackson and A-Ha. She had a dog she named Freeway, after the dog in the TV show 'Hart to Hart'.
The last words we know were spoken by Jo Jo were as she stood in that phone box in Moone. At 11:37pm 9 November 1995, she told her friend: "I have a lift. See you Mary."
