Baskin grew up in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland, and attended the local Wood School.
[3] She returned briefly to RTÉ in 1998 to present The Saturday Show before working on different projects and, while contemplating her next move, decided to write a book.
A practitioner and advocate of Ayurvedic healing medicine and therapies, Baskin visited India with a friend in 2001 and discovered a property in Kerala which had been built in 1868 and inhabited for more than a century by the Raheem family, which she turned into a heritage guest house and hotel.
[4] Baskin is fluent in Irish and worked as a teacher of the language at the beginning of her career.
[5] In 2015, she joined Cork's 96FM to host the morning radio talk show Opinion Line.