A Dublin man whose 10-year prison sentence for possession of cocaine worth €350,000 was set aside by the Court of Appeal earlier this month, has been given a new five-and-a-half year jail term backdated to 2011.

The Court of Appeal has set aside a man's 12-year prison sentence for possession of drugs worth more than €4m in a case which raised an “important question” regarding construction of the Misuse of Drugs Act, as amended.