When Mary Harney was in New York on Monday launching Showcase Ireland, the big craft and gift fair at the RDS next month, she got the best riposte yet to one of the Eve jokes she tells occasionally and which Quidnunc has reported before.
Eve, she told the US buyers and Irish exhibitors was feeling very lonely. "Don't worry," said God, "I am going to create another creature called a man." " What is a man?" asked Eve. "Well, he's a little like a woman", said God, "only more aggressive, arrogant, power-seeking and egotistical and he is mad about sex." "Things are so bad I will put up with him," said Eve. "Because he is so arrogant," said God, "we must let him think that he was here first." "All right," said Eve. "One more thing," said God, "we must keep all this a secret between us girls."
When the laughter died down, John Corrigan, outgoing head of Enterprise Ireland in America, took the microphone. "And the rest of the story is," he said, "women can't keep a secret."