Podcast Corner: Tragic death in Roscommon covered in Death By Rooster
Jasper Kraus is the focus of Death by Rooster.
You might have seen a story last year about a man in Roscommon who was attacked by a rooster and died. The freak incident made unsurprising jokey, clickbait headlines around the world. The Irish Examiner’s latest podcast, following last year’s award-winning The Lost American and the acclaimed Catherine the Fake, is entitled Death by Rooster and finds journalist Sorcha Crowley looking past the clickbait at the victim and his family left behind. Jasper Kraus lived a sensational life filled with “circus tigers, trick horses, Hollywood westerns” and many other beloved animals. But there is another family tragedy at the heart of this three-part series, which clocks in at just over an hour’s total running time. There’s also a longread by Crowley - just search for Death by Rooster.
