He was raised at the top of the Shankill Road in West Belfast at the start of thirty-five years of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, an experience that has shaped his life. It is hoped that Paperboy might yet still get to tour the States, where there is much interest in Belfast and the stories of ordinary people living through strife. It must have been all the wee cups of tea and sugary traybakes pressed upon him by the ladies at church meetings.

I can’t wait to see and hear this mix of teenage kicks, tatey bread, music, love and war on the stage of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.On a busy day, or if there was a suspected hijacker on the street, it could reach speeds of up to 25 mph. While other boys may have wanted to wear dark glasses like the brigadier in the UDA, I longed to wear a leather jacket like the Fonz in Happy Days, except my mammy wouldn’t let me. The space-saving, hinged lid swings back to reveal room for enough bread to see the hungriest family through several rounds of toast and it closes securely for hygiene. He has applied his experience and learning into leadership development and management of change and transition in many voluntary, public and private sector organisations. Following the smash-hit musical Paperboy that had 2 sell-out runs at the Lyric Theatre Belfast in 2019 and 2018, this new witty, heart-warming show will explore Tony Macaulay's second memoir Breadboy.

It tells the story of how ordinary people not only survived, but tried to live with joy and hope during a traumatic time in our history. And all of this under cover and protected from the ever-present Belfast rain and the odd stone or brick outside.It meant you wouldn’t steal money from the till or nick a Wagon Wheel from the confectionery shelf even though you really wanted to. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. When Breadboy Tony Macaulay was growing up on the Shankill in the 70s, the Troubles were ever-present and times were hard. An interesting read telling the story of a bright young teenager trying to find a way through life in the Upper Shankill, a Protestant working class area in Belfast.

Leslie was very holy but I realised that he must have had sex a few times because he had young children. I suppose he had to do something to pass the time when he wasn’t serving bread or at church or at meetings in the Orange hall. The Breadboy has discreet ventilation holes at the back to allow air circulation and for excess moisture to escape.

I was just a teenage boy growing up and trying to come to terms with life in this divided city,” he said. Following my appointment to the post of breadboy the first major challenge was to waken up in time to do the job. At least my paperboy shifts had been during waking hours, even if I had often delivered my forty-eight Belfast Telegraphs in the early evening darkness. The King is dead - and even Big Duff, the hardest loyalist hard man on the whole estate has been seen to shed a tear. On that day, I was privileged to visit a local village to hear stories of reconciliation from perpetrators and survivors of the genocide.

The breadmen in those other old-fashioned bread vans had to dismount and walk around to the rear of their vans to access the loaves using a long wooden pole to withdraw drawers full of bread onto the street. He said I was a good, honest boy because I went to church after getting saved at the Good News Club on my holidays at the caravan in Millisle. But after a very short time the repetition of the tune began to irritate me as much as Boney M singing ‘Ma Baker’ every half hour on Radio Luxembourg. The little breadboy impresses with its combination of rounded shapes and cool colours - in the classic Wesco style!In 2014 Tony was asked to present the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards to young people from Northern Ireland on behalf of the Earl of Wessex. While Paperboy was set in 1975 when the author had just turned 12 and had bagged himself a new job selling the Belfast Telegraph, Breadboy takes place in 1977. So we didn’t play it so much around the Twelfth of July because there were usually a lot of hangovers about then and the tune sounded nothing like ‘The Sash’ anyway. The Breadboy keeps bread fresh with the use of it Wesco's unique back ventilation holes that allows for air circulation. There's all of the humorous and cringeworthy moments that many of us had whilst growing up along with many cultural and musical memories that many of us experienced during a decade that defined many of us at that time.