Donald Trump has railed against some Republicans planning a last-ditch effort to thwart him from becoming the party's presidential nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if the party does not rally around him.

Like Jim Hawkins at the end of Treasure Island, I sometimes dream of my youthful voyage far from home. I dream of trains and pizzas and penalties and the Egypt match. And I start upright in my bed with that familiar, unlovely chat ringing in my ears. Olé Olé Ofeckinlay.

In the House of the Interpreter

A year ago today, Mark Mc Govern played his first and only game for the Ulster football club in San Francisco.

OUT in San Francisco Airport, when the All-Star travelling party landed last week, a passer-by clocked the tracksuits and asked Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett who was playing.

ULSTER San Francisco club chairman Joe Duffy yesterday criticised the 96-week suspension handed down to Patrick Power for his assault of Mark Mc Govern in June.

IN SANTA CRUZ, 80 miles south of San Francisco, a lady decides to hop on her bike and head north.

MORE than 600 new species, including the world’s smallest primate and a colour-changing gecko, have been found in Madagascar in just over a decade, a report said yesterday.

Vodka company Svedka has reportedly pulled out as sponsors of Lindsay Lohan's 21st birthday party in Las Vegas this summer.

Web giant AOL is planning to dig up a garden in a hunt for gold and platinum bars it believes an internet spammer ordered to pay them millions of dollars has buried there.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he had discussed setting up an offshore bank off the Florida coast to launder crime money after his businesses in New York state had been seized by a bank because he defaulted on a loan.

FANCY a property purchase with a hitch? A tow-bedroomed (and no, that’s no misprint) home and a pitch of a different kind is being offered by Kenmare auctioneer Mark Daly.

RTÉ'S Treasure Island winner Sean O'Brien got a load off his chest last night when he won the cult series' €50,000 prize.

THEY’RE champion snorers, firm friends and joint favourites to win cult TV series Treasure Island.

THIS September, career guidance teachers all over Ireland can expect a deluge of questions concerning careers in psychology following the transmission of Treasure Island Live.