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How the giant Dublin Minion captured the world’s attention

Bananas.

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

min mashable mashable

Various images were uploaded several times to the Imgur sharing website

imgurmin imgur imgur

With captions like…

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mean imgur imgur

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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    Aug 4th 2015, 1:39 PM

    Where did it come from? What did it want???

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    Aug 4th 2015, 1:47 PM

    Actually, I think breaking news got in first.

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    Aug 4th 2015, 1:17 PM

    Some serious proof reading issues here…

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    Aug 4th 2015, 1:11 PM

    Snarls? Really?

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    Aug 4th 2015, 2:12 PM

    Sorry my comment did not violate your suspect comments policy. For the record I pointed to how this can make global news but the stories of planned parenthood harvesting organs from unborn babies gets totally buried and I lamented the state of modern journalism. The journals censorship of my comment only backs up my criticism. Shame on the censors at thejournal.ie.

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    Aug 4th 2015, 2:35 PM

    They’re not harvesting organs and you’re well aware of this. They’re using stem cells from aborted foetuses which has massive potential in the medical field for transplants and grafts etc. Of course it’s all done with the permission of the woman having the abortion, and means that the stem cells can do massive amounts of good for those in need of it rather than simply disposing of the foetus as is done at the moment. Don’t let any of these facts get in the way of your holier than thou ramblings though, you clearly need something else to sink your teeth into now that the same-sex marriage referendum has passed.

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    Aug 4th 2015, 5:12 PM

    This is making me want to watch the minions movie. Haven’t seen it, any body recommend it?

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    Aug 4th 2015, 5:39 PM

    It’s idiotic and stupid…but I loved it!

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    Aug 4th 2015, 7:52 PM

    That one is Norbet, he’s an idiot

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    Aug 4th 2015, 1:26 PM

    The best was RTE’s 9 news last night quoting the local councillor when relating to the h+s ”as despicable”.

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