![]() “My mom and dad would bring us there for the annual dance at the park, too. Sometimes they’d have dances and we’d go. The scene up there was great fun at the time. “We were in the Rangers team from the age of 10 till about 16. “My dad, who was from Ireland, loved Gaelic football and so my brother and I played it there,” Ledwidge tells the Irish Voice, enjoying the memory. He’s made real money doing it too, enough to change his life completely.īut before we get to how he made his fortune, there’s his background in the Bronx and his days at Gaelic Park. Nowadays Ledwidge works alongside the most successful author in the world, thriller writer James Patterson, a one-man publishing industry who has roped in untold millions courtesy of his legions of fans.Īs the co-author of a series of some of Patterson’s most profitable books to date, Ledwidge has risen from an admired but, it’s fair to say, mostly unread author, to co-writing some of the most widely read books in the world. But since those days he’s come as far from his origins as it’s possible to get. Now 39 and living outside Hartford in Connecticut, Ledwidge used to play there with his brother back in the eighties. The next time you’re up at Gaelic Park in the Bronx watching young lads aim for glory on the pitch, think of the happy fate of Michael Ledwidge. ![]()
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