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How the giant Dublin Minion captured the world’s attention
Bananas.
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
In India
In Hollywood
In Pennsylvania
In the UK
Time Magazine spotted a potential pun
People Magazine used the world ‘snarl’
Mashable said what we were all thinking
Various images were uploaded several times to the Imgur sharing website
With captions like…
And Twitter was all over it, of course
Stay safe out there.
- Written by Emer McLysaght and originally published on DailyEdge.ie.
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