Deirdre Jacob missing twenty years Today.

Did the purse not have any form of ID in it?

Thats fcuking terrifying.

Regarding Eva Brennan - she went missing only a few months after Annie McCarrick; and absolutely vanished without trace. Not a whisper ever seen again, just in one afternoon.

And we do know that LM was an opportunistic criminal - who struck fast, when the opportunity arose. I wouldn't rule him out of the Brennan case at all.

Alan Bailey - the retired Garda detective who investigated the missing Leinster women cases and who regularly gives media interviews about this and other notorious cases he worked on throughout his career - believes the killer of Annie Mc Carrick was a senior member of the Provisional IRA who enlisted the help of his comrades to dispose of her body and evidence in the aftermath. No prosecution is ever likely.

Apparently not. I'm just reading that very book at the moment and the whole "IRA Guy" story sounds mighty thin to me.

The story alleges that this chap was on the run, hiding out, in Dublin. Went up the hills for a drink (thinking nobody would recognise him) and met Annie - and they became so fixated with each other that she stayed out, and skipped collecting her wages, or cooking for the guests that were invited to her home that evening. Quite totally out of character for her, says everyone that knew her.

So - the tale continues - this improbable couple, Annie and the terrorist, go on chatting and drinking; and he gets loose-lipped and tells her a bunch of secret IRA stuff that he shouldn't have mentioned; oops!

Only dawns on him when they were about to leave that he has been too indiscreet - and so he decides to silence her - does that - and can even persuade a couple of his IRA mates to help him hide the body next morning.

It all sounds utterly fabricated to me: the main glaring anomaly is that Annie would not have stayed so late since she was expected at home for her own dinner party. She hadn't even put away the groceries in the fridge.

My guess is that she was the victim of an opportunistic criminal who attacked her when she was walking near Enniskerry - not too long after she arrived there.

Who was it? Who can say?

Sounds like you dodge a bullet of some sort there, I. You can see how easily people can get caught up in bad situations.

As the guy says in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, “The fear of offending is stronger than the fear of pain”.

Was she definitely a she?

Yes she stood out of the van and spoke directly to me. It was probably nothing but has often played on my mind. I’ll never know but it made me nervous and was a weird encounter to say the least.

I have never heard of the supposed IRA link to the death of Raoinid Murray.

The, alleged, murderer has no direct links to the IRA but someone in her family is, alleged, to have been a , very high up, member. This person was known to victim and is believed to have had a history aggressive, and violent, behaviour and may have seen the victim as a “love rival”. The angle of attack, the potential weapon and the force used has led investigators to suspect the murderer was a woman.

The vandalism of Raonaid’s grave and, subsequent, attack on her memorial website by a, mobilised, online group would suggest a personal motive but backed by a powerful “group”.

It’s best not to go into it as it will end up with the thread getting locked, as has happened with others when it comes up on anniversaries etc.

Gosh I used to "thumb a lift" from Carlow town out the road to my home place regularly every weekend when working in the early ninties

. I was in college so around 1992 on. A guy used to stop and give me a lift every so often. I thought nothing of it,as if it was his regular way home. Struck me as odd,this guy, as he never spoke, I was just glad of the lift.

Until one time he asked if I minded if he took a detour. I noticed a bag of tools at my feet , hammer and saw falling out of it. I remember feeling v scared but felt I couldn't jump out of a moving car! I said when we pulled up outside a strange house in the countryside that I knew the neighbours, and that my mother would be wondering where I was. He went into the house, I considered running but knew I was at least 6 miles from home.

Henreturned after a while and he dropped me on the main road. I never hitched again. The story of JoJo Dollard was in the news at the time, it has always made me wonder tho, or maybe he was just a kind, quiet guy who gave hitchhikers lifts

I was hitching a lift from one town to another (about 30 miles) when I was about 21 I'd say.

A man in his 60s or 70s stopped and gave me a lift. seemed a nice man, full of chat and a happy disposition.

When he was telling me some story/joke, he slapped my knee/thigh which was a bit awkward but no big deal.

Then later he put his hand on my thigh again and left it there...

He didn't do anything else, but next village we were going through, I told him I'd be grand from there.

Seems two witnesses seen a naked and screaming women running through moone on the night Jojo dullard went missing , a truck driver and his boss passing through ,and tried to help the unidentified woman . Garda were called from a call box at the time ,

How is this only coming the public attention now

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/truck-driver-tells-gardai-he-saw-woman-running-naked-and-screaming-through-village-on-the-night-of-jo-jo-dullards-disappearance-40957273.html

I remember reading somewhere that he told the Carlow woman something like "I'm going to bury you like the others". I'm sure I read somewhere else once that LM and John Crearer were known to one another. It also seems unlikely that JC, having committed the crime he did in the late 70s, never reoffended again between that and when he was finally caught in 2002 or thereabouts.