Martina, Ammi and Isaac Burke gate crashed the dinner that was being held in the National Building Museum on Thursday evening.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended security arrangements at the Ireland Funds Gala dinner during which the Burke family stormed the event.
Guests at the event later asked questions about how the family managed to gain access to the event given that they were visible outside in the early evening. He said: “The security details and arrangements have been,I would have, thought balanced, firm and strong. I've witnessed that myself. I couldn't fault that.
“People have a right to protest in a proper way. That is not a proper way, to attempt to maybe disrupt an event that was to honour people who have been of such service to Ireland in the US and people of the Irish American diaspora who really are not involved in anything to do with this issue.
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