Father who threatened to throw baby down stairs jailed

A 24-year-old father who dangled his baby daughter over a bannister and threatened to throw her down the stairs has been jailed for six months.

A 24-year-old father who dangled his baby daughter over a banister and threatened to throw her down the stairs has been jailed for six months.

The Limerick man denied two separate charges of assaulting his daughter who was just shy of her second birthday when the offences took place in July 2002.