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

Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Morning Herald

In India

India.com India.com

In Hollywood

Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter

In Pennsylvania

Penn Live Penn Live

In the UK

The Guardian The Guardian

Time Magazine spotted a potential pun

Time Time

People Magazine used the world ‘snarl’

People People

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

Beautiful clouds on my drive to work today… pic.twitter.com/piTE2epFNp
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) August 3, 2015

rob delaney / Twitter

"On that day, mankind received a grim reminder." pic.twitter.com/anxUG5SF40
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) August 3, 2015

Ryan Broderick / Twitter

To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.
The Jaeger program was born. pic.twitter.com/nY23DmZrsk
— femboyardee (@Bambi3D) August 3, 2015

Pootie / Twitter

Stay safe out there.

- Written by Emer McLysaght and originally published on DailyEdge.ie.

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How the giant Dublin Minion captured the world’s attention