It has also been suggested that the whole thing may have been a hoax by Shiels, who was a " Surrealist painter and writer, showman, wizard and arch-hoaxer "

The Owlman story began when paranormal researcher Tony " Doc " Shiels was approached by a man, Don Melling, who had been visiting the area on holiday from Lancaster.

In 1995, McCarthy had been in talks to take his program into national syndication through a production company he started with his producer, Michael Patrick Shiels.

Kilmarnock beat rivals Ayr United in the Ayrshire derby at Hampden thanks to a Dean Shiels goal in extra time.

Folk ballads written of the county commemorate the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645, the ' Dowie Dens ' at Yarrow and Tibbie Shiels at St Mary's Loch.

* William Shiels ( 3 December 1848 — 17 December 1904 ), Australian colonial politician and 16th Premier of Victoria, was born at Maghera.

George Shiels ( 24 June 1881-19 September 1949 ) was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

* George Shiels at RTE's Ireland's Millennia People

Ballymena were unlucky at Solitude as they lost 4 – 3 to the Windsor Park Blues, with goals from Davy Reid and Jamie Shiels ( 2 ).

It proved a season of rebuilding in the second-tier of Irish League football as the erratic Shiels made a number of ' big-name ' signings which all flopped before the eyes of the supporters ; former Northern Ireland goalkeeper Tommy Wright, former Leeds United defender Paul Beesley and Liberian striker Leon Browne all failed miserably to make an impact at the Braid.

Promotion back to the restricted sixteen team Premier League proved difficult at first for Shiels and his untested side – however the influence from former Nottingham Forest forward Nigel Jemson proved key to Ballymena ’ s success during the 2003 – 04 campaign as they equalled their best placed finish in the Premier League by finishing sixth and also gaining a return to European competition for the first time in 15 years through the Intertoto Cup.

Shiels was given the finance to attempt to bring the Gibson Cup to Mid-Antrim for the first time and signed a number of quality local players in Rory Hamill, Gary Smyth, Gordon Simms and Tim McCann but his team didn ’ t not produce a return on his investment and eventually cost Shiels his job after four and half seasons at the helm.

A monument with a cross was set up at Kindrum in 1960 honoring McElwee, Shiels, and Michael Heraghty as the men whose actions ," Ended the tyranny of landlordism ".

* Maggie Shiels, Technology industry hits out at " patent trolls ", BBC News, June 2, 2004.

In 1968, aged 16, Moore moved to Dublin to join the group Skid Row with Noel Bridgeman and Brendan " Brush " Shiels.

Other artists to have recorded versions include Daniel O ' Donnell, The Chancers, Portland, Frank Patterson, Ronan Tynan, Brush Shiels, James Galway, The Dubliners, Charlie Haden with daughter Petra Haden, Seanchai & The Unity Squad, Scottish band North Sea Gas, Newcastle upon Tyne band, Kelda with vocalist Jack Routledge, Yonkers-based group Shilelagh Law, California punk band No Use for a Name, New Zealanders Hollie Smith and Steve McDonald, Dropkick Murphys, The Durutti Column, by the Canadian group The Tartan Terrors, The High Kings, the Epcot-based band Off Kilter, and by Dr. Kieran Moriarty and friends.

According to Shiels, the family had become so perturbed by the sighting that they had abandoned their holiday three days early and that the father would not allow either of his daughters to be interviewed.

They contacted Shiels, who encouraged them to draw images separately ; he considered them similar enough to verify their story but different enough to rule out conspiracy.

A remarkable 2 – 1 victory over Celtic followed with goals from Jamie Shiels and ‘ Hoody ’ McCambridge as Ballymena FC lifted the showpiece trophy in their first season as a senior club.

A few days later in what was billed as an All-Ireland Cup final the Light Blues travelled to Dublin and defeated their Southern counterparts, Shamrock Rovers, 2 – 1 with goals from Joe Cassidy and Jamie Shiels.

This left Shiels with a number of totally inexperienced teenagers fighting his cause, however despite their best efforts, slumped to a dismal fifth place finish during the 2001 – 02 season – Ballymena United's lowest ever placing in their history.

'" However, Shiels maintains that Moore simply referred the band to Shiels to discuss the rights to the name, but that it was never followed up.

In January 2012 Shiels issued a public request to Jon Bon Jovi via YouTube to contact him about the use the name ' Skid Row '.

The book came into the hands of Thomas Coxeter, and subsequently into those of Theophilus Cibber, furnishing the basis of the Lives of the Poets ( 1753 ) published with Cibber's name on the title page ( though most of it was written by Robert Shiels ).

He still occasionally performs as ' Brush Shiels ' Skid Row ', as recently as February 2005.

Paatelainen left Kilmarnock in order to take the vacant position of Finland national manager and his assistant Kenny Shiels was caretaker manager for the final games of the SPL season.

During this time the official development team expanded to include several talented contributors from the nascent Textpattern community: with Release Candidate 3 Alex Shiels and Pedro Palazón joined the development team, and Sencer Yurdagül was brought into the fold as Textpattern's release manager with Release Candidate 4.

A successful spell under manager Kenny Shiels saw the club win the Smirnoff Cup ( 1999 / 2000 ) and the Craig Memorial Cup ( 2000 / 01 ), and finished as runners-up in the ( renamed ) Second Division ( 2000 / 01 ) and Irish Intermediate Cup.

Nicholl was then appointed assistant manager of Kilmarnock for a second time, by Kenny Shiels on 15 June 2011.

Because both of the 1970s sightings involved " Doc " Shiels, an eccentric with a fondness for hoaxes, researcher Jonathan Downes acknowledges that Shiels could have invented the Owlman.

* Tony " Doc " Shiels ( 1989 )

By way of compensation, Shiels gave him a bass guitar he had bought from former musician Robert Ballagh for £ 49 in 1967 while with the Uptown Band, he taught Lynott to play bass, and after a stint with ' Orphanage ' Lynott went on to international fame as founder, bassist and vocalist for Thin Lizzy.

At the end of the year Shiels, Moore and Bridgeman briefly reunited for a series of gigs, and a 1975 line-up of Shiels ( guitar / vocals ), Bridgeman, Jimi Slevin ( lead guitar / vocals, ex-Alyce, ex-Peggy's Leg ) ( born June 1950, Dublin ), Timmy Creedon ( second drummer / vocals ) and Johann Brady ( bass ) recorded the Skid Row single " The Spanish Lady " / " Elvira ".

Since the original release, all of the original developers have departed the project: Allen and Palazón in 2006, Shiels in 2007, and Yurdagül in 2009.

In 1976 Jody Pollard ( guitar, ex-Elmer Fudd ) replaced Pat O ' Farrell in a line-up with Shiels ( vocals / mandolin ), Bridgeman ( drums ), John Brady ( bass ) and Dave Gaynor ( drums ), recording the Phil Lynott-produced double A-sided single " Coming Home Again " / " Fight Your Heart Out " and unreleased track " Skid Row Flashback ".

But Corporal Johnson has alreadeh said it didn make no diffrunce t'hi-im ''.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

`` Some guys bothered me '', Mercer has said.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

`` He has lost much blood '', he said.

`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.

`` This '', he said, `` is exactly what has been happening between the politically free nations in the postwar world.

In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

Noting all the difficulties that stand in the way of reunion, he has said that they ought not to discourage anyone.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.