No Fail Third Date Meal

Nervous that your culinary skills aren't up to scratch for hosting that date? Sure look, Pete Wolstencroft has you covered...   OK, so you have had the awkward first date and you have passed the milestone that is the always tricky second date: when ...

50 Shades of Domhnail…

Fifty Shades of Grey parodies have been flooding the internet since the movies release, some good, some not so much. However, a candidate for Welfare Officer of the DCU Student Union may well have whipped (sorry) up the best one yet. Domhnaill Harkin is ...

The Journal.ie are now accepting CVs in listicle format

The foremost authority of ‘You won’t believe what happened next?’ journalism, The Journal.ie, are now cutting through the bullshit and will only accept  CVs from aspiring ‘journalists’ if they are in their favourable form of communication, the listicle. The...

Balancing (College) and (College!)

Trying to find a perfect balance between studying and partying, amongst other things, is a power struggle between good and evil in your head (think of it as a Batman versus Joker scenario – studying being that bastard Joker). In order to ensure you can keep a ...

Watch: Fake Oscar Prank

Who needs to win an Oscar when you can just pretend like you did with equal results. This bloke ran around Hollywood with a pretty piss poor replica of the coveted award and was mobbed everywhere he went. ...

Snobbery – The British Disease

George Bernard Shaw once said, “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” I frequently wonder whether things have really changed all that much since Shaw’s day. In the run up to the genera...

Smedia Competition – The EU in my country

As part of the Student Media Awards 2015 (Smedias), the European Commission is sponsoring a prize for the best article entitled “The EU in my county”. The aim of the competition is to show the impact of the European Union in everyday life and the winner will g...

Writers wanted for The Spanner!

Would you like the chance to write for our Spanner ezine? With over 100,000 people on our weekly mailing list, this could be a great opportunity for the budding satirists out there to get their name in the game. If you can put a humorous spin on current ...