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THE LAST TIME there was a Mitsubishi Eclipse it was a two-door coupe that was mainly sold in the US. Now the name is back but it’s going to be associated with the company’s new crossover and will join the ranks alongside the Outlander.
The Eclipse Cross will be slightly smaller than its sibling, and has a sportier look to it thanks to its sloped roofline and coupe-like C-pillar.
At the back is a split rear screen design, not unlike what we’ve seen on recent Honda Civics, while along the side the body gets more contours to help give the car an up-to-date image.
Inside the Eclipse Cross is a spacious cabin with room for five as well as a generously sized boot. What is more noticeable is the design, which sees a move upmarket for Mitsubishi. There’s a larger ‘floating’ infotainment screen in the centre console and a cool new touchpad system.
Due to arrive in time for the 181 plate in January 2018, Mitsubishi Ireland has confirmed that the Eclipse Cross will come with a choice of engines. This will start with a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine and will be followed by a 2.2-litre diesel version.
There will also be a choice of transmissions, ranging from a six-speed manual to an eight-speed automatic.
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The harrm done socially by alcohol far out weighs that or recreational drug users , legalise cannabis and take the power away from the drug lords.
@Martin Ryan: yes, it does seem that drug user laws do not actually stop drug users, but put the trade directly into the underground organised crime networks who do not fund affordable housing, healthcare, transport, water, etc.
@Martin Ryan: Absolutely, legalise and tax. Take the power away from the cartels.
Take the market away from the cartels. Legalise it, tax it .
Regulate it like other drugs.
People will use drugs whether legal or not. Might as well get tax revenue from it.
The war on drugs is silly and unwinnable.
@Niallers: yeh lets legalise coke and heroin.!!!!..Great idea..Jesus wept
@Harry byrne: what an ignorant comment. You’ve obviously done no research and have no clue on the topic.
Look at Portugals model, they have decriminalised heroine and it has resulted in a 50% decrease in users, do some research
@John Flynn: i tell you what..if you can back up that 50% reduction claim by posting a link ??i suspect you took that figure out of your rear end my pedigree chum
@Harry byrne: I was sceptical myself but according to the link below, he’s right. Not only has heroin use decreased by 50% but HIV rates are 10% of what they were in 2001 and overdose deaths per annum have decreased from 80 to less than 20. Yes it’s single source but it backs up his claim as requested.
@Harry byrne: Do some research Harry. Information is widely available and easy to find.
@Harry byrne: https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin, it’s a couple of paragraphs in.
@Harry byrne: Figures provided as requested, it seems.
@Dave Murray: Won’t be back
@Y U no spell good?: Vice.com!!!!!!..
@Mr Black or Mr White: Vice.com …Well let me retract my earlier statement so ..hahaha..Suppose i’ll be quoted The Daily Sport figures now will i???
@Harry byrne: Do your own research Harry. There are official figures released but im not going to waste my time looking for them for you because you dont want to know.
@Mr Black or Mr White: if they are widely available as you stated from your earlier comment then you wont waste any time posting a link??
@Mr Black or Mr White: or is it just the one “reputable” scource you have
@Harry byrne: Here is 21 pages of it. The first like in google. Enjoy. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-reports/2017/portugal_en
@Harry byrne: I’d say Jesus wept when you were born…
You talk through your rear end
@Mr Black or Mr White: it doesn’t say anywere in that report that heroin use reduced by 50%!!!..So again please back up the claim??
@Harry byrne: is that ‘reputable’ enough for you. Bellend.
@John Doe: I’m just asking for someone to back up the 50% reduction claim in heroin use..
@Harry byrne: it certainly does. The figures are there. You do the math.
@Mr Black or Mr White: did you read that report you posted??..And less of the insults please
@Harry byrne: “it certainly does. The figures are there. You do the math.”…Were ???Were does it say or by the figures or graphs point to 50% reduction??
@John Doe: A man who’d definitely benefit from one of the substances he so passionately decries.
@Grotmaster: I apologise for decrying the use of heroin..its a harmless drug sure
@Mr Black or Mr White: i suspect he wont be back
@John Doe: Show me in that article were it states there was a 50% reduction in heroin use???..copy paste it for me ..Youse are all talking shite!!..pulling 50% reduction out of your arses.Go back to your xbox’s and laminated keyboards
@John Doe: Radio silence
@Harry byrne: Portugal have taken this step since 2002. How far behind are we as a country?? Look up the stats for your self they are there. Decriminalisation/legalization works it’s that simple.
@harry
Let’s not get bogged down, we should discuss this logically.
He quoted a figure from an article that others articles don’t back up. They all do however show a trend of less harm from illegal drugs when decriminalised.
So ask yourself the question “why are coke and heroin illegal” if the answer is: to reduce the harm they do to the individual and to society.. then the current situation is not working and one approach of decriminalising the user, tried in Portugal, is successfully reducing those harms.
If the answer: is to punish the user for enjoying/ being addicted to drugs, then the status quo is working pretty well!
I just can’t understand why we want to punish people for having a problem.
@Harry byrne:
Since were cocaine and heroin considered recreational drugs?
@john doe: john i agree with you but that i’ve heard this “50% reduction” figure before and its complete and utter pap!!.And its not backed up..The current model isn’t working agreed but legalising heroin is madness..
@Harry byrne: Stupid comment.
@Harry byrne: you need to learn a bit more before you spout your shite. I never mentioned any %s. Just that you were an idiot with the sort of views that are keeping the drug problems at their high levels. Go educate yourself, and btw legalizing and decriminalization are very different.
@Harry byrne: Harry you need to just accept the facts before you. You called bull and asked for a link which was provided but now that info is not good enough. I suspect your mind is closed on this subject no matter what facts are before you.
@harry
It depends on the model heroin gets legalised to.
I would like to see it heavily regulated and available for free on a type of prescription basis where addicts get it and take it in the same place (supervised centre).
This would provide current addicts with what they need while simultaneously make it unviable as a business for dealers to import.
If anyone is found in possession of heroin they are given compulsory counselling and put on the prescription programme as necessary.
The above doesn’t mean you ignore any criminal organisation who do try to import it just as it is a crime to import cigarettes or alcohol without a permit now.
heroins legality does not affect users need for it and most know the danger so the choice to start is a desperate persons act akin to suicide.
@john doe: it’s really that simple. The target would be to eliminate new takers and treat addicts. Regulate it and destroy anyone caught importing or selling illegally
But I have no choice, I have to buy weed from a dealer or I can’t buy it. It’s not like I can shop around.
Grown your own, simple.
It boggles my mind the people who say legalisation will not work, when there are many countries out there including half of America who have legalised marijuana and is has had a profound affect on drug use and brought in millions via tax to government coffers. Just Google Colorado and see what it has done there.
In regards to legalising everything else, again, we are not talking about ‘what-if’ situations anymore, look at Portugal. They decriminalised all drugs and drug use dropped, crime dropped, abuse dropped, and the government is saving millions on enforcement.
We have actual real world examples we can look at and see that these methods work and prohibition does nothing other than create the black market and causes strife in our society.
But again, do not take my word for it, there is plenty of real world data out there you can Google and see the results yourself. All you have to do is look.
@Wade Wilson: well said wade
€200 mil could easily solve the housing problem. When will are Inept government wake up.
@TonyF: it’s a start Tony
@tony
600 houses a year is a damn sight more than has been built over recent years.
The government legalise it, sells it for (just random numbers here) €20. The cartels dont like this sell theirs for €10. Its legal now, nobodys breaking the law. Whos gonna win there? Be like the black market for cigarettes.. They’re legal, so is alcohol… but there’s always a black market. I agree some drugs shud be legalised just dont think it will stop this!
@Christine Hanway: yeah but to continue your argument the drug cartel now have competition where previously they had a monopoly enforced by violence. The drug cartel would be like a Tesco when the German discounters (Lidl/Aldi) came into the market – forced to lower their prices and consequently their profits to stay in the game. Not only that but the drugs produced by the Government would be quality assured whereas what you can buy on the street can be cut with potentially lethal substances.
@Christine Hanway: How regularly do you buy drugs? It’s a bit of a weird situation. So I’d say most people would rather get theirs from a shop. Also with legalisation comes domestic factory scales production. Which would dramatically reduce the price of most drugs. As shown in California with marijuana, gangs simply cannot compete with cost effective mass production. We can tax it to rediculious levels and still produce a superior product that undercuts gangs.
@jason
Sensible comment.
Wow, if this is so, then this is €200 million a year that is largely raised, by users, through muggings, burglaries, and car thefts?
@Ser Barristan Selmy: thanks Ser, yes its a wonder how much of the drug use is funded from personal income that is not earned from crime that is abuse on others.
@Ser Barristan Selmy: more importantly, who are you enabling?
You cant purchase from, and hence fund, criminals with a clear conscience.
@Ser Barristan Selmy: there are several people dead in countries like mexico, colombia, Jamaica for your ‘harmless’ habit; just because it is far away, your money is going to criminals, who terrorise innocent people.
Of course if it was legalised that would not be an issue, but while it’s illegal you are putting money in hands of violent people, don’t kid yourself that it is victimless
@ginger tomatoes i9: What a hysterical load of tosh.
@ginger tomatoes i9: don’t kid yourself that the production of the technology we use is victimless, or using petrol in our cars is victimless or the manufacture of the clothes we wear is victimless. Indirectly we all have blood on our hands.
@Tony Gordon: My dealer is a single mom below poverty line. Huge criminal there. I sleep just fine after the weed I just bought from her.
@Darren Sheridan: and she is a single link in the chain you are supplying. Open your eyes
@Tony Gordon: Surely you can blame the government for the crime links. People can’t buy weed legally so they have to go to a dealer. If you could buy legally you wouldn’t have to fund the criminals.
@Let free speech live: you could simply choose not to buy it.
I’m all for legalizing certain drugs & what not but the idea of taxing it just doesn’t stack up. Look at the head shops, criminals put most of them out of business, and the Netherlands policy towards cannabis is often referenced in conversations such as this however, is anyone going to say there’s no serious organised crime there as a result? Quite the opposite. Almost every organised crime outfit globally has a presence there. There’s no easy solution to this issue but I do believe cannabis should be legalised. And no, I don’t use drugs myself but if others want to they will regardless if it’s standing in legislation.
@Matt Donovan: unless you are saying the government are criminals that closed down head shops you are wrong about who closed them
@Kal Ipers: the government didn’t burn them out or wreck them when they refused to pay for protection.
@Matt Donovan: the netherlands policy is that it still isn’t legal but the authorities ignore ceetain activities. Not the ideal solution but has some benefits. Colorado is the model we should be looking at.
But even there federal resistence is leading to crime. Banks fear federal raids so they refuse to take money from cannabis businesses. Cash is kept on premises leading to armed robberies.
So, legalise completely, remove criminal involvement completely, regulate sales to reduce exposure to children, tax and divert funds into public services.
Reads like a campagin for legalisation of drugs to take them out of the hands of the dangerous criminals.
it cost 400million to install water meters in all homes. and we all know how well that went. imagine saving up on 200Million euro if we just had all them drugs legalized and taxed. i dont get the logic at times. our govenment doesn’t mind that we have to buy expensive houses and that we’re being forced to use private transport/health, but once you mention cannibis, they go crazy and run away.
decriminalize everything. what people put into their bodies is their own business.
Pity it’s not leagalised just think of the homeless that could be housed with the tax.
Many of the same people who buy illegal drugs like to lecture everyone on domestic and international crime.
They directly fund the criminals.
@diarmuid
How do you know??
To be fair if you have a bank account you fund criminals
Cartels.. seriously
They should legalize them, that money can be used to house the homeless,
You will never stop drugs no more than the police could stop alcohol in the early 20 th century, drugs are here to stay , legalized drugs is the only way
Can’t pigeon hole drugs and booze. Both are used by addicts.
and for the life of me I can’t understand why people are calling drugs recreational. Addiction causes social and family problems everywhere. It’s mostly middle class users who are responsible for the organised gangs intimidating communities far from the comforts of Dalkey and Dartry. Hypocrisy…
Headline should be Governments Force Recreational Drug Users to Keep Cartels in Business. Anyone who thinks that people will ever stop using drugs because of some ethical responsibility is delusional. People will always do drugs. They’re not going anywhere. Absolute waste of money trying to convince otherwise. Spend the money on education about the physical harm they can do etc. so people can make informed choices.
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