Mystery Irish cats

Monday 13th April 2026

The reports of ‘big cats‘ made to police in Northern Ireland in five years | Belfast Live

The FOI shows that prior to September 2021, police would send officers on a patrol to check out whether or not there may be a big cat in the area but .
Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.