My Life with Kathleen Scerri: I was told the ‘globe of death’ was too dangerous. I did it anyway

From secretly practising as a teenager to performing across Ireland, Kathleen Scerri has made the globe of death her life

Ireland’s only female ‘globe of death’ stunt motorcyclist Kathleen Scerri, pictured during her performance at the Circus Vegas tent in Cork city. Picture: Chani Anderson

Taking my motorcycle out on the road is not an option for me, considering it is designed only to operate inside a steel mesh sphere known as “the globe of death”.

While I perform with Circus Vegas in shows all over Ireland, my first encounter with the death-defying stunt was in my home country of Brazil.