Every so often there are still stories that get enough traction to make the news of elusive big cats being spotted here (though I’m in Scotland rather than Ireland). We have also had a few real instances of non-native big cats (as in, cats substantially bigger than a house cat, not necessarily genus Panthera) being released intentionally or unintentionally that no doubt help fuel the stories, including a couple of lynxes earlier this year that are thought to have been someone’s personal attempt to reintroduce them to Britain

The “caught shee” pronunciation is for the singular cat sìth or cat sí rather than the plural form given in the image