The Spanner is an Irish satirical news magazine, and each issue is jammed full of spoof news, arts, celebrity and sports stories. Here's some of the highlights from the first ever edition, which came out in November 2004...

Irish NGO Lends Helping Hand in Afghanistan
Afghan indigenous sector making great strides mainly thanks to the help of Finglas young fellas Anto and Macker of SMACK - Society for the Modernisation of Agriculture and Commerce in Kandahar...

O'Driscoll Tanning Disaster
Irish rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll suffers an awful training injury, putting the future of the Irish team, and the plans of his many commercial partners, into turmoil...

Iraqi Insurgents Not Targeting Irish People
Al Zarqawi calls for some perspective and claims to have bigger problems than the Shannon Stopover...

Cian O'Connor Slams Critics
Olympic gold medal winning handsome horseman issues shocking outburst. You need me, he tells bemused assembled press corps...

African Asylum Seekers Love it Here
Obusembel Oladjembe has spent the last three years sitting around waiting on his asylum request to be processed. He's having a ball...

Austin Powers Rumours Dog USI President
Union of Students of Ireland President Ben Archibald has refuted stories that he starred as Fat Bastard in the recent Austin Powers movies...