Enoch Burke’s family spent thousands on online ads, with Facebook acting as their 21st-century pulpit
Social media used to push agenda and highlight their extraordinary antics in America
Members of the Burke family disrupt Washington DC gala dinner attended by Taoiseach
Maeve Sheehan and Ali Bracken
As online advertising goes, Josiah Burke didn’t get a bad return on his 100ドル investment.
Shortly after they were hauled out of the grand National Building Museum in Washington DC for gatecrashing the Ireland Funds’ 1,000ドル-a-plate St Patrick’s Day gala dinner, his mother Martina and brother Isaac had recovered their composure to deliver a five-minute speech in darkness from the sidewalk that hit all the usual notes.
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