How many other women in Ireland at that time surrendered another element of their independence by stopping hitchhiking, due to an underlying sense of fear?
How many other women in Ireland at that time surrendered another element of their independence by stopping hitching lifts, due to an underlying sense of fear?vanished in Moone, Co Kildare, while hitchhiking to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny. A marked social change is the almost complete absence of people hitching lifts now, due both to the significant increase in car ownership and the expansion of public transport networks.
That November night in 1995, Dullard took a bus to Naas to start her out on the road, and then started hitching. She got one lift to Kilcullen, and then another to Moone. She was still 74km from home when she reached Moone and made a call from a public phone box at 11.37pm to a friend, Mary Cullinan, to let her know where she was. Cullinan later told gardaí that her friend cut the call short, telling her a car had stopped for her.
I wonder how many other women in Ireland at that time felt the same, and who also surrendered another element of their independence by stopping hitchhiking. In an analogue era, where her last known contact was via a public phone box on a main street, her family did all they could to publicise her disappearance: sisters Mary, Kathleen, Nora and brother Thomas. Both parents were already dead when their youngest child vanished, and her siblings experienced an additional media focus.
None of Dullard’s belongings that she was carrying with her that night has ever been found, and she herself has not yet been found. Her remains must lie somewhere, and the person or persons who put them there unequivocally know where they are. Her name is now part of a mantra of other young women who went missing in past decades, and whose bodies have never been found: Deirdre Jacob, Annie McCarrick, Fiona Pender, Ciara Breen, Imelda Keenan and Fiona Sinnott.
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