Yoga teacher who took driver to court claiming neck pain after crash pictured doing headstands

A instructor who claims she experiences neck and shoulder pain after a has been pictured doing headstands.

Chloe Geraghty, 28, has taken the other driver, Eoin Carroll, to court for damages, alleging she still suffers the impact of the collision seven years on. However, the court was told she has shared on pictures of her performing challenging poses.

Although Ms Geraghty claims she needs to post engaging content for her "livelihood", it was pointed out in Dublin's High these certain poses weren't advised due to her alleged injuries. Explaining her situation to Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds, Ms Geraghty, who now lives in Spain, said: "It's my livelihood, nobody wants somebody sitting in a cross-legged pose."

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The yoga teacher's case was dismissed but she has appealed against this decision. The woman, originally from Lucan, County Dublin, said she was diagnosed with a soft tissue injury, for which she received anti-inflammatory medication and physiotherapy recommendations, following the shunt on June 8, 2017.

Thomas P Hogan SC, representing Ms Geraghty, informed the court that while liability was accepted, the defence argued the impact was trivial. The court heard that Ms Geraghty's car was pushed forward about a metre in the accident, causing her to suffer neck and shoulder injuries. At the time of the incident, she was working as a personal shopper and was delivering items, reports .

She explained that she was slightly thrown forward during the collision, but the airbags did not deploy. A week later, she visited her GP due to pain and was noted to have tenderness in her neck.

She subsequently attended physiotherapy sessions. She described her neck and shoulder pain as significant and "ongoing." She later became a yoga teacher but found that overexertion in yoga led to severe pain.

Despite attending a yoga teacher training course in Thailand in 2019, she experienced discomfort after classes and focused on rebuilding her strength. Under cross-examination by Moira Flahive SC, representing the other party, Ms Geraghty confirmed she had an Instagram page for her yoga business. She admitted that despite advising against certain poses if you have any type of neck injury, she appeared to be contradicting her own advice.

Ms Geraghty countered: "I am going against my own advice, but I do have a neck injury." She explained that she has to take painkillers daily and contrary to what was suggested, doctors had actually encouraged her to exercise and do yoga. She admitted to not disclosing her yoga teacher training or headstands to a later examining doctor simply because he didn't ask.

When the counsel suggested she hadn't sustained an injury, Ms Geraghty stood firm, saying she disagreed. Further challenged on the veracity of her claims about the injury's persistence, Ms Geraghty insisted she did not intend to mislead, adding: "I still have pain in my shoulder today."

She also mentioned needing painkillers post-yoga sessions. The hearing with Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds is set to continue next week.