“I don’t want to sound like a killjoy, but if that had landed on a cyclist, for instance, it could have been serious,” he told the Irish Times.
“If you take the Minion part of it out, if this was a large inflatable weather balloon that had not been properly tethered, there would be no humour in this story at all.”
McAuliffe told the newspaper he had referred the incident to the City Council’s planning enforcement department to investigate if the fair was following planning measures, as well as health and safety regulations.