Bunches of bright artificial flowers decorate the stone plaque beside the telephone box in Moone, Co Kildare. As the traffic thunders past, most motorists may not even see it or read its poignant message: "JoJo Dullard. Missing since 9 Nov 1995. What happened to her? Where is JoJo now?"
To some who stop to pay their respects, the plaque may suggest that JoJo's family believes she is still alive, but that is not the case. Almost four years after JoJo's disappearance as she hitchhiked from Naas to her flat in Callan, Co Kilkenny, Mary Phelan firmly believes her 21-year-old sister is dead and that she was murdered.
For the Dullard family, the anguish, longing and frustration are as painful today as they were the day they learnt that JoJo was missing, but her family has never given up campaigning for answers. Now those emotions are being harnessed to help other families who will go through the same trauma in the future.
"I have decided that if I cannot find JoJo, I am going to do something I can to help other families," Ms Phelan says. And so the JoJo Dullard Memorial Fund is being founded to commemorate the missing and help their families.
Hundreds of people are reported missing every year. Most, however, turn up again after a few days. In 1997, 1,877 people were reported missing to the Garda, but by the end of the year, only six cases were outstanding.
Last year 2,015 people were reported missing, and 14 remained untraced. Garda figures show that 89 people have remained missing between 1990 and 1998.
"An awful lot of them are gone for 24 or 48 hours but then turn up again," a Garda spokeswoman said. "Many of these people have depression or some other illness which causes this."
Ms Phelan believes many of these people are quickly forgotten by the public. "Missing people are like you and me," she says. "In their short lives they love their family and friends, work in the home place and help people, but when they are gone they are just swept under the carpet."
The first priority of the new group will be the erection of a statue in memory of Ireland's missing people. Co Kilkenny artist Ann Mulrooney has designed an 8 ft cylindrical bronze structure, which will be built using casts of the hands of the families of the missing. It will be erected either in the leafy grounds of Kilkenny Castle or on the tranquil banks of the River Nore in the grounds of Kilkenny County Council's headquarters.
The group has applied for a £25,000 grant from the millennium fund, and a Carlow-Kilkenny TD, Mr John McGuinness, who is backing the project, believes a decision is imminent.
In the absence of a graveside at which to mourn, Ms Phelan believes the memorial will fill the void for the families of missing people. "This national monument is to remember all our people, to show that they will not be forgotten," she says. "For us, their families, we will have a place to go to grieve."
Their plight has brought the Phelan family into contact with the families of other missing people. Long telephone calls and chats over cups of tea have shown them that many of those left behind experience the same suffering and common problems.
In some cases, the nightmares these families have gone through have taken a horrendous toll. "We know of people who will no longer leave their homes and of other people who have had to be admitted to mental hospitals," Ms Phelan says.
"None of us received any counselling or got any help. The only thing which kept me going was people coming up to me and asking if there was any news."
Work is under way to have the memorial fund established as a charity. Funds will be used to provide counselling for families. Financial assistance will also be available to help families continue their searches for their loved ones. Funding will help to meet the cost of posters, advertising and the hiring of private detectives.
Meanwhile, JoJo Dullard's family are continuing their own campaign. All they want now is to find her body. "I do not care who killed her, all I want is to bring her home," her sister says. "She has a right to be buried and a right to a Christian burial. JoJo has got to come home."
From an early stage in the investigation, she knew that JoJo was dead. Her last call from the phone box in Moone was to a friend and JoJo told her that she had just got a lift.
She was not the sort of person who would run away or deliberately go missing. She had spent the last two years of her student life living with Ms Phelan's family after her parents died.
Ms Phelan is harshly critical of the Garda investigation of her sister's disappearance. At the heart of her criticism is the fact that gardai have yet to search the grounds of a person she believes is the sole suspect.
Chief Supt Sean Feeley, who is leading the investigation, confirmed the lands had not been searched, but declined to comment on whether the person was a suspect. The investigation however is continuing.
JoJo Dullard is one of six missing persons cases being examined by Operation Trace, the special Garda investigation unit set up to search for possible links between the cases.
The other cases are US student Annie McCarrick (26), who went missing in the Wicklow Mountains in 1993; Fiona Pender (25), from Tullamore, Co Offaly, who went missing in 1996; Ciara Breen (18), from Dundalk, Co Louth, who disappeared in 1998; Fiona Sinnott (19), from Lady's Island, Co Wexford, who went missing in 1998; and Deirdre Jacob, who went missing from Newbridge, Co Kildare, in 1998.
Operation Trace has yet to establish any significant link between the cases.