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How the giant Dublin Minion captured the world's attention

Bananas.

erin5 Source: Erin Van Londen via TheJournal.ie

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

sydney Source: Sydney Morning Herald

In India

india Source: India.com

In Hollywood

hollywood Source: Hollywood Reporter

In Pennsylvania

penn Source: Penn Live

In the UK

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gu Source: The Guardian

Time Magazine spotted a potential pun

time Source: Time

People Magazine used the word ‘snarl’

snarl Source: People

Mashable said what we were all thinking

min Source: mashable

Various images were uploaded several times to the Imgur sharing website

imgurmin Source: imgur

With captions like…

giant Source: imgur

mean Source: imgur

And Twitter was all over it, of course

Stay safe out there.

A giant inflatable Minion flew loose and caused traffic havoc in Santry> 

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