Those among us of a certain vintage will remember those carefree days as a child when if we were lucky enough to wrangle a penny or two from the pockets of mum and dad, we would head down to the local milk bar and ask for an assortment of lollies from the friendly shopkeeper. We would usually ask for a “mixed bag” that included one of those long red ones, a thick, short blue piece, a milky white, perhaps a round green jubey thing and maybe even a yellow, purple or orange one

Irish rock band Thin Lizzy is long-remembered for its chart-topping hit, “The Boys Are Back in Town” – a 1976 recording that shot to No.1 in Ireland and charted with respectable Top 10 peaks in the United Kingdom and Canada, in addition to reaching No.12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Heck, it was even voted by Rolling Stone magazine as the 272nd best song in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2021. And the legendary tune’s theme was ringing through th