The defending champions stamped their class on this game as Cork suffered another crisis of confidence in front of posts.

As their seniors found to their cost against Galway earlier in the summer, conceeding a rout of points was to prove costly and it was a full 43 minutes before they had registered their first score.

By then, they were in deep trouble, already trailing by 10 points, and that only one of their starting forwards managed to get their names on the scoreboard told its own tale.

Tyrone began in convincing style with Stephen O'Neill sending over a free with just a minute gone.

Cork were left to rue a penalty miss midway through the first half after William Morgan, nephew of former Cork Coach, Billy Morgan, had been pulled down by Pascal McConnell. However, the Newtownstewart goalkeeper redeemed himself with a quite spectacular stop to deny Padraig Hurley when going down to his right.

Tyrone raced into a five-point lead and Cork were not able to turn their possession into points.Tyrone registered two quick scores after the break from O'Neill followed by points from Peter Donnelly and Mulligan to see them go into double figures.

James Masters finally ended an embarrasing spell for Tony Davis's team when he put over a free midway through the second half.

But with Enda Mc Ginley and Kevin Hughes also making contributions in the full forward line for Tyrone, a late goal by Cork subsitute, Conor Brosnan, made little difference to the scoreline.

CORK: K Murphy, G Canty, S O'Brian, D Duggan, N O'Leary, A O' Connor, A O'Connor, L Collins; D Kavanagh, D Niblock, C McCarthy, J Olden, P Hurley, J Masters (0-2, one free), C Murphy, W Morgan. Subs: T Kenny for Collins, C Brosnan (1-0) for Hurley (both 31 mins); D Meegan for Niblock (57);

TYRONE: P McConnell; C Gormley, D O'Hanlon, M McGee, C Meenagh, G Devlin, P Jordan, P Donnelly (0-1), C McAnallen, R Mellon, B McGuigan, S O'Neill (0-3, one free), E McGinley (0-1), K Hughes (0-1), E Mulligan (0-8, five frees).

Referee: M Monahan (Kildare).