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JAPANESE CAR MANUFACTURER Nissan has announced it is cancelling plans to build its X-Trail SUV at its plant in northeast England despite Brexit assurances from the government.
“While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK’s future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future,” Nissan Europe Chairman Gianluca de Ficchy said in a statement.
The car giant announced in 2016 that it planned to build the model at its plant in Sunderland, but will now assemble it instead at Nissan’s global production hub in Kyushu, Japan.
“Other future models planned for Nissan Sunderland Plant – the next-generation Juke and Qashqai – are unaffected,” added the statement.
“A model like X-Trail is manufactured in multiple locations globally, and can therefore be re-evaluated based on changes to the business environment,” said Hideyuki Sakamoto, Nissan’s executive vice president for manufacturing and supply chain management.
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I couldn’t even eat a full Marathon when they were popular………….
They changed its name to Snickers on July the 19th, which is also the anniversary of Galway’s liberation from Indians and end of the ice age.
LOL
Does running two half marathons count?? Serious commitment to run a full one, tip of the hat to anyone who has! Don’t think I could do it!
@Brian
yup Americanised, to bring in line probably with the US owners, pretty much what is happening to the western world in general, being snickerised.
Whether you say you can or can’t your probably right.
Male and Female winners will get €10,000 but winning wheelchair athlete will only get €500. Not easy just using your upper body in this wind.
Last year Paul Hannon (wheelchair winner) was four minutes faster than the first woman home – Maria McCambridge. But he would barely have been able pay his hotel room for the weekend with his prizemoney.
I think the Dublin Marathon organisers and Airtricity as sponsors should be ashamed of the way they allocate prizes.
Or just maybe the prizes are allocated based on interest generated in each event, and thus potential revenue which can be created and you’re blaming the organisers for public perception over which they have no control. Or maybe they’re just evil, either or really.
@silentmajority Yes, there are less wheelchair athletes but less than 1% of population are wheelchair users. Many wheelchair users would not have the upper body strength to wheel themselves around a 42km hilly course. Many fully able-bodied people (including myself) would not either!
I’m a pragmatist. Of course Dublin City Marathon need decent prizes to attract athletes from abroad. However, they also pay for the elite athletes so it’s a brucie-bonus for them. My problem is that there is such a discrepancy. Patrick Monahan (this year’s wheelchair winner) gave up his job to become a full-time athlete. He was the only record-breaker today. Yet he receives a twentieth of what the other winners get.
The Marathon is not a profit-making venture so revenue generation does not apply. As for saying Airtricity have no power to decide how their sponsorship is given out – do you really think if the Marathon organisers said we are giving the winning woman €500 and the winning man €10,000 (as less women enter than men) Airtricity wouldn’t say ‘No way’!
Less than 1% of the population run marathons.
@leakingColostomyBag then you’re proving my point. If a small percentage of able-bodied people do marathons and the prize the winner can look forward to €10,000 then if a small percentage of wheelchair users do marathons they should be entitled to a similar prize.
I have a great respect for anyone that can complete a marathon. I don’t think I could make it halfway through one without my heart parachuting out my ass
I’m with you pal, the last time I ran a bath I had to sit down for 10 minutes. That said I do admire all those fit people running around, some of them anyway.
I did the Pamplona bull run last year, one of my flip flops fell off and a bull caught my arse with one of his horns. No more running for me!!!
Running away from angry bulls in flip flops is worthy of a Darwin Award.
The bull run is a disgusting event and anyone that takes part is a twisted individual.
Jumbo did you not recognise my tongue in cheek comment!
It wasn’t an attack on you Mary, just my opinion on people who do actually “run with the bulls”.
Jimbo I actually agree and cannot understand how many people take part in this event each year.
Feel the same about bull fighting.
Lucky bull!!
Completed 2011 & 2012 and never again.
Did a half marathon many years back on the hottest dsy of the year enough . Would like to get in training for a pub marathon of the course and see when I hit the wall
No – I have a car !
2 a year since I turned 18. 10 years later and the buzz I get from finishing is still amazing!
Did London in 2013 and 2014 for charity. One more next year for the hattrick then probably a very long time till I do one again.
On my way to cheer on the marathon runners at the 6 mile mark. Good luck everyone!
Great admiration for those who manage to compete I have only gone as far as 10k myself maybe one day I’d make it.
Ill be honest. Im a personal trainer and am a fit lad. It is the best personal achievement i have done. But my body was put through things it is never supposed to be put through. For a while after too, i wasn’t the same. If anyone is thinking of doing one, id recommend a long hard think about it.
For anyone thinking of doing it I’d recommend a good long training programme! Did Dublin twice and its the best thing I ever did.
Most important thing is to not underestimate it and think 10 weeks training will do it.
Don’t forget the .2 at the end (very important)if u ran 26 miles and stopped up u wouldn’t have completed the full marathon :-)
It’s one of those bucket list things, I’ve done it myself, but you need to be in your prime. Getting old and injury and golf had stopped me giving it another go. I have most things scratched of my bucket list except “comment of the week”
If you ever see me running then you better start running too as there will be something chasing me ! Not an original Sims quote but felt it sums me up perfectly !
Dublin 2009 and 2010 and Barcelona 2011. I am very injury prone so haven’t made it to a start line since, but would love to go again. Planning to do a half-ironman next year though.
No, I’m exhausted just writing this comment.
In theory I could but what for?
- for charity ? I’d rather spent that day in work than running and if I gave half of earned salary I’d add surely more than spending this time running
- for health ? It’s not healthy – it’s too extreme and there are known fatalities every year. Any extreme exercise is not really healthy, simple.
- for fun? I know more fun ways to spend a day…
Any other reasons ? I don’t know. Sorry marathon lovers don’t mind me.
Too extreme? How many people run a marathon every year compared to how many die while doing one? I’d say the health benefits far outweigh the health risks. You could get killed crossing the road.
But I need to cross the road to get from A to B.
I don’t need to run a marathon for any reason. Small difference.
And what are health benefits? Most of those runners no offence, look like skeletons.
And they recover their torn muscles and tendons or feet blisters for a week after the run.
I’d say bit of body weight training + running short distance 3-5 km couple times a week can get you better looking and healthier body.
What are the health benefits? Reduction in cholesterol level, reduced weight, stronger and more functional heart, stronger cardiovascular system, stronger body, reduced stress levels, can help with depression. There are a whole host of benefits to long distance running. It’s also a great achievement.
All those benefits you are also getting while doing any 15 minutes + cardio exercise and frankly speaking – any exercise in general at all.
No need to run 40K for 4 or 5 hours… putting your body into major stress shock.
Take a look at various types of athletes. Long distance runners are by far worst looking from them (unless you’re fan of almost emaciated bodies stick size arms and legs). Ok, I better go, I’ll be thumbed to death when the crowd is finished running and they’re back onto their smartphones :) Good luck mate, whatever you enjoy doing.
You’re probably not wrong at all, there are benefits to any exercise. Going the gym and working out properly will of course have many benefits. I guess it’s the sense of achievement that drives people to do it, the harder something is the more some people will want to do it.
Statistically, running a marathon is less risky than fishing or snooker, even ignoring the health benefits.
Emily: unless you can win it and being paid good money for it, I cannot find any reason to run marathons, simple. There are tons of different exercise that makes you better looking, stronger, and healthier than running marathons (note – I am not saying not running at all).
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I love the ‘I’m doing one right now’ option- fair play to the 2% that are checking out the Journal.ie on the course :)
Many people doing the marathon today won’t even run it, completing a marathon in 5 hours or more takes about as much effort as watching it from my couch
Sure it does Dan. How fast have u done one?
@Dan Broderick
To run a marathon in 5 hours you would need to keep up a pace of just over 7 km/h, may not seem very fast but try keep that pace for a solid 5 hours and you will see how hard it is. As someone who ran in 2012 I believe anyone who finishes wether they take 2 hours or 7 hours has achieved something. It takes more than physical training to complete a marathon it is one of the most mentally challenging days you will experience especially for those in the 5-7 hours bracket it takes a lot of commitment to stay going. Thank you to all the people who line the streets outside their houses and give the athletes water and bits of oranges and even just a cheer, you kept me going when I hit my wall in 2012 and I wouldn’t have finished I you hadn’t kept encouraging me
Tv marathon yeah?
Doesn’t look good for the health of the nation if half of respondents wouldn’t even consider it. Fat asses!
Re ‘I’m running one right now’, I ran today’s marathon and while running down the quays the guy beside me who I didn’t know answered his phone – it was his wife asking him where he was. He told her he was doing the marathon and then covered the phone and said ‘she probably wants to let the milkman in’.We all fell around the place laughing.
Did it once, great experience and well worth the training. Mind you I didn’t break any records. The current record is 2.02:57! The course is 26.21875 miles long! That’s something around 12.8 miles an hour average speed.
I hope the Swedish Academy saw this post and they can put you on the shortlist for the Nobel award, thanks to this world changing calculation. Now I know how fast I need to run to beat it… cheers :)
I was out cheering everyone from the Elite runners to the first time novices and everyone in between! Respect to that fireman with the 40kg dummy! Some tenacious old timers out ploughing along! And plenty of characters! One of my mates finished in the top 100 another still running! Fair play to all involved!
Ran 5 so far. Not this year though. Injured. :-(
“I’m running one right now” ?
Hopefully, you’re raising ‘much needed funds’, for the ‘People Addicted to Telling Everyone what they’re Doing’ charity, or PATE’D as it’s supporters refer to it as …
I would run a lot of 10ks, and I’m due to run the Clontarf half marathon at the end of November. So while I would never say never, I have two seriously dodgy knees, I’m currently just getting over achilles tendonitis, so I don’t know if my poor body body would be able for 26 miles of torture.
Ha ha ha ha not a hope …fair play to them who do it
I’d run one if Hugh O’Connell was chasing me with another “story” about Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein.
Nope. I run for stress relief, to stay in shape / health reasons. I can run about 8 miles and I have no desire to run further than that :)
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