Early career Roche secured an invoice clerk-typist job with a foundry and agricultural machinery company, Pierce's, in Wexford. After her marriage to British fashion photographer Neil Campbell-Sharp, she began to write text to go with his work, and later to manage his career, and so became involved with fashion journalism. She also purchased a number of other titles, publishing 11 at one point, including
Social and Personal, which she later sold to
Michael Smurfit's Smurfit Publishing, and
Success. She secured a nomination for election to the board of directors of
Bank of Ireland in 1992 but failed to be elected. She also managed a rock band,
Against the Storm, in 1994–1995. which has hosted over 5,000 artists on residencies as of mid-2019. This was followed by the Origins Gallery, ==Recognition==