Brian O'Donovan

On 8 December 2021, it was announced that he would succeed Ingrid Miley as RTÉ's new Work and Technology correspondent in February 2022.

As Washington correspondent, O'Donovan covered two presidential impeachments, the Black Lives Matter protest movement, the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 US presidential election and the storming of the US Capitol Building.

In December 2017, it was announced that he would succeed Caitríona Perry as the Washington correspondent for RTÉ News.

In 2015, O'Donovan joined RTÉ News where he worked as a multimedia journalist reporting across television and radio news. Since then, he has reported on major international news stories including the aftermath of the 2016 Nice truck attack, the plight of Syrians in refugee camps near the Jordan-Syrian border, the verdict of the Molly Martens Corbett trial in North Carolina, and on the Catalan independence protests in Spain.

O'Donovan has been married to Joanna O'Donovan since 2007. They have two children, Lucy (born in 2010) and Erin (born in 2013). O'Donovan studied Communications at Dublin City University (DCU), and following college he taught English in China.

O'Donovan began his broadcasting career with Cork radio station Red FM in 2002. Three years later, he made the move to television when he joined TV3 News. Over the next ten years he held various positions including news reporter, finance correspondent and documentary maker.

Brian O'Donovan (born 1980) is an Irish journalist. He is the RTÉ News and Current Affairs Work and Technology correspondent since February 2022. He previously was the Washington correspondent from January 2018 to February 2022.