Matty Nolan

Matty Nolan was a recurring character in Brookside. He was a lifelong friend of Bobby Grant. Matty was the biological father of Barry Grant, as he had a fling with Sheila Grant at the time she married Bobby in 1958. Barry was born in June 1959. Matty was played by Tony Scoggo.

Backstory
Matthew Nolan was born in the mid to late 1930s in Liverpool, and was around the same age as Bobby Grant, born 1937, who Matty would later become friends with. In September 1958, Matty had a brief fling with Sheila Grant at around the time she married Bobby. Sheila always knew that Matty was the father of her first born child Barry Grant in June 1959. Bobby assumed he was Barry's father.