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Taoiseach downplays gala dinner protest by evangelical Christian family - Micheal Martin said the Burke family’s attempt to enter the floor of the Ireland Funds event was ‘regrettable’.

Martina, Ammi, and Isaac Burke gatecrashed the dinner, which was being held in the National Building Museum on Thursday evening. They had been protesting outside as guests were arriving, but they later made their way into the gala in the middle of a speech from NFL Coach Dan Quinn.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Ireland Funds gala dinner in Washington DC last night was not significantly disrupted by the Burke family's protest at the event.

Members of a high-profile evangelical Christian family from Ireland have disrupted a gala dinner in Washington DC attended by Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

Members of the evangelical Burke family were dragged out of a gala dinner in the US after they broke into the event to accost the Taoiseach. Enoch Burke was jailed for contempt of court after he was ordered to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in the midlands;