Ireland's Court of Appeal overturned Noel Noonan's drug conviction due to improper hearsay evidence.

The Court of Appeal in Ireland quashed the conviction of Noel Noonan, a Limerick man sentenced to eight and a half years for possessing nearly €140,000 worth of drugs. The court ruled that a tip-off phone call regarding the drugs, admitted as evidence at trial, was hearsay and improperly influenced the jury. This ruling led to significant unfairness in Noonan's case, prompting a retrial to be held at Naas Circuit Court.