Father jailed for dangling baby daughter by a leg over river

The man also inflicted a 'barbaric and vicious punishment beating' on his then-partner

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Brian O’Callaghan imposed the combined five-and-a-half-year term on the 29-year-old for guilty pleas concerning endangering and threatening to kill his daughter and the assault causing harm of the baby’s mother last April.

A judge has jailed for five-and-a-half years an Ennis father who endangered his three-and-a-half-month-old daughter’s life when he dangled her upside down by one leg over a river.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Brian O’Callaghan imposed the combined five-and-a-half-year term on the 29-year-old for guilty pleas concerning endangering and threatening to kill his daughter and the assault causing harm of the baby’s mother last April.