In November 2018, it was announced that he would succeed David Murphy as the Business Editor for RTÉ News.
[1] Goodbody began his journalism career in the print media as a markets reporter with the Sunday Business Post in 2000.
The following year he made the move to television when he joined TV3 News.
In 2003 Goodbody joined RTÉ News where he initially worked as a reporter and occasional editor on its flagship morning radio news programme, Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.
Goodbody was RTÉ's Science and Technology correspondent between 2013 and 2018.