BREAKING: Gardaí search house in Kildare as man is arrested on suspicion of murder of Jo Jo Dullard

The man in his 50s arrested on suspicion of the murder of Jo Jo Dullard was detained in Co Kildare this morning and is being questioned at a garda station in the county.

It is understood that searches are also being carried out at a house and land at a location in Co Kildare.

Jo Jo Dullard was last seen in Moone, Co Kildare on November 9, 1995.

It is the first arrest in the case, which was upgraded from a missing persons to a murder inquiry four years ago.

A Garda statement said: 

"Gardaí investigating the disappearance and murder of Josephine "Jo Jo” Dullard have this morning arrested a male on suspicion of the murder of Jo Jo Dullard.

"The male, aged in his 50s, is currently detained under the provisions of section 4, Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at a Garda Station in Co. Kildare."

Jo Jo was socialising in Dublin on November 9, 2024 but missed the last bus home to Kilkenny that evening and instead at 10pm boarded a bus to Naas, Co Kildare.

She had intended to hitchhike the rest of the way home to Callan, in Co Kilkenny.

Jo Jo hitched a lift from Naas to the slip road on the M9 motorway at Kilcullen, Co Kildare. At approximately 11.15pm, she hitched another lift to Moone.

In Moone, Jo Jo made a telephone call to her friend Mary Cullinan at 11.37pm.

During that call, Jo Jo told her friend that a car had stopped for her, and she was going to take the lift.

This was the last known sighting of her.