Dónal Donohoe

There are times when it’s easy to get tired of the virtual world that is the internet and to long for the real world where you can look into the eyes of the person you are talking to and feel the grip of the hand you are shaking. Prolonged periods of dealing with people on the internet can increase this longing, but every now and then the internet throws up something with a human side to it that makes it all worthwhile. A week ago I received an email from someone who had seen me perform in Copenhagen in the early nineties and who got in touch after coming across my name by chance while searching for the band Pentangle on the net. As the person is now living in the south of France it is unlikely that we would have ever met up again anywhere except on the internet. There are a lot of connections, contacts and possibilities in the virtual world and it is nice to sometimes hit on the right ones.