At a Conspiracy Conference in Rural Ireland, Charlie Kirk Was the Star

The weekend before last, I was asked to stand in memory of Charlie Kirk .

“It just seems the right thing to do, it seems the noble thing to do, it seems the correct thing to do, for us to stand in a moment’s silence to honor a great warrior,” the speaker implored.

I was not inside the more than 63,000-seater State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where Kirk’s official memorial ceremony took place. I wasn’t even in the United States.

I was in a derelict shed in the town of Boyle in the northwest corner of Ireland listening to Vincent Carroll, a doctor turned Covid vaccine conspiracist . He spent the rest of his speech ranting about the threats posed by Muslims who, in his telling, want to “change” Irish society in their image.

Carroll, who did not respond to a request for comment