Fossett's Circus survived its tightrope walk and can thrive again says veteran

Herta Fossett escaped from Czechslovakia in the ’50s and hailing from a line of circus performers, married into one of Ireland’s most famous circus families. She tells Deirdre Reynolds how her husband would have loved to see her awarded the ‘Oscar’ of the circus world.

As Ireland’s oldest travelling show, Fossett’s Circus has survived everything from silent movies, right through to Netflix.

Now grand dame of the big top Herta Fossett has told how the Irish institution could be facing its greatest foe yet in 2016: the iPhone 6.