Cork avenged last season's Munster minor football championship semi-final defeat by Limerick with a runaway victory at the same stage of this season's competition at Pairc Ui Chaoimh last evening. A Seamus O'Donnell goal just before the interval left Cork 0-6 to 1-2 in front but they coasted home in a one-sided second half.
Their impressive display was highlighted by a 53rd minute goal by substitute Robert O'Mahony to seal the home side's victory.
CORK: P O'Shea; N O'Leary, N Furlong, F Crowley; D O'Sullivan, R Curran, T Kenny; D Golden, D Niblock (0-1); J Flavin (0-5), C Sheehan (0-1), P Hurley (0-6); K McMahon, B Collins (0-1), C Brosnan (0-1). Subs: C McCarthy (0-1) for Sheehan, D Delaney (0-1) for Golden, R O'Mahony (1-1) for McMahon.
LIMERICK: D Holmes; P O'Dea, N Shanahan, P McCarthy; S Barrett, E Mulcahy, O Keating; A Burke, D Fitzgerald; D Long, M Keane (0-1), M Mansell (0-1), M Scully, S O'Donnell (1-3), C Fitzgerald. Subs: JP Aherne for Scully, B Quirke for Barrett, B Moran for Long.
Referee: P Lyons (Kerry).
The Dublin senior hurling league Division Two clash between Oliver Plunketts-Ruadh and Naomh Mearnog at Martin Savage Park last evening was abandoned with five minutes remaining after a spectator ran on to the pitch and struck a Naomh Mearnog player.
