His previous jobs include producer/presenter with Slovak Radio in Bratislava and working for an Arabic cable TV station in London. He writes on Irish affairs for the leading Slovak liberal newspaper, Sme, and is engaged in a long-term research project into the comparative potability of beers from the Slovak and Czech Republics. Robin Sheeran took a BA degree in Film and Literature at the University of Warwick sometime in the 1980s, but has since made a full recovery.