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How the giant Dublin Minion captured the world's attention

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erin5 Erin Van Londen Erin Van Londen

YESTERDAY ALL OF our fears were realised when the Minions finally took Dublin.

At around 3pm the giant inflatable yellow monster broke from from its restraints in a Santry fairground and blew onto the Old Swords Road.

Within hours it had made news headlines worldwide, after being first reported by TheJournal.ie….

In Sydney

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In India

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In Hollywood

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In Pennsylvania

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In the UK

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Time Magazine spotted a potential pun

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People Magazine used the word ‘snarl’

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Mashable said what we were all thinking

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Various images were uploaded several times to the Imgur sharing website

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With captions like…

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And Twitter was all over it, of course

Stay safe out there.

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