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December '09 issue online now!

Whether you've missed out on on a copy on campus or you just want to refresh your memory this is the place to catch up on back issues of Ireland's favourite satirical magazine.

Every edition of the magazine is uploaded in full and can be read straight away (no software required) in a high quality but quick downloading format.

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The Spanner Magazine Issue 26

In our special Santa's birthday issue of The Spanner you'll find: valuable advice on how to have a scabby Xmas reviews of the year in Sport and Arts and the very first Golden Spanner Awards.

In addition to all your usual favourite satirical stories we also have an interview with Limerick pranksters The Rubberbandits.

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The Spanner Magazine Issue 25

For our first issue of the new drinking (aka Academic) year The Spanner presents some essential College info such as: how to Dress like a Stereotype where to find your local Meat Market Part Time Jobs you may not have considered and a Guide to Daytime TV. We also have all the usual satirical nonsense and an interview with Delorentos.

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Madonna and Shaun Wright-Philips decorate our tasteful final cover of the year in a post-colonial preternatural adoption special. We round off our music coverage with an interview with Boys Noize, and finish off our Guide to Summer. Tasty features on Unemployment and study wonder drug Modafinil round off the year...click here to read this edition

As winter gives way to spring, we carry and interview with choice music prize winner Jape and kick off our guide to summer with The Spanner's Guide to Summer-Part I. The run down on all festivals, home and abroad, is given. On top of this, we have a Guide to Facebook stalking, and a ritual slating of Bloggers...click here to read this edition

Tommy Tiernan graces our cover as he waxes lyrical about Bob Dylan, controversy and handicapped travellers. All this straight talking is offset by our usual crap, with a Guide to TV and some stirling investigative work on the darker side of Eddie Hobbs...click here to read this edition.

Sexy Angelina Jolie introduces our round up of all things newsworthy in 2008. Things get mashed up in our review of I Love Techno and a new feature makes it's debut as we take a look at 'Alive!' in our Laughable Publication of the month...click here to see this edition

Cheryl Cole tantalises readers inside, where they can find the ultimate Guide to The Recession, not to mention a top class exposé on Clampers, and a (genuine) interview with Super Extra Bonus Party...Click here to read this edition

The year gets off to a bang with our first edition of 2008-2009. Highlights include our very own guide to college, an 'interview' with The Coronas, while intellects up and down the country are challenged by our College Quiz...Click here to view this edition