Bohemians ... 2 Cobh Ramblers ... 0  So, the revival continues at Dalymount Park, where improving league form was last night matched by another win in the Carlsberg FAI Cup, reports Emmet Malone.

And if every team that visited the ground they claim to be the "home of Irish football" was as accommodating as Cobh on this occasion Stephen Kenny could yet turn a once dismal-looking season into another double-winning triumph.

You have to cast your mind back to the last visit of next week's league opponents, UCD, to recall opponents who came and lay down with quite so much panache. To be fair, a team of part-timers has no right to expect anything more than to be outclassed by such expensive opposition but neither side could have been under any illusion afterwards. The high-rolling Dubliners won this game despite themselves rather than because of any great display of superiority.

Cobh came to Dublin in the shadow of their miserable competitive record against last year's double winners and all hope that the southerners might score a first win - or even a second draw in 14 meetings with Stephen Kenny's side more or less evaporated before most of those out on the pitch had even broken into a sweat.

Glen Crowe was the man who dented the visiting side so severely, the striker getting between defenders to slot home Trevor Molloy's through ball past John Donegan from just inside the box after just three minutes.

Given that it was the home side's first move forward of any note it would have been rash to anticipate a landslide on the strength of the strike, but within a matter of a few minutes there was certainly enough evidence to suggest that Ramblers were going to be in for a bit of a roasting.

However, for all their recent improvement under Kenny, for the remainder of the half Bohemians still managed to look like a side who had lost their way.

Donegan did have a couple of decent saves to make, with Molloy doing most of the providing, but the Dubliners' approach work was abysmally sloppy while for the most part the finishing was even worse.

It was just as well, for the First Division side still looked hopelessly outclassed. While the hosts never actually managed to extend their early lead they looked so comfortable through the first period that to even describe the early stages as a contest would be to lavishly praise the Corkmen.

At the start of the second half the home side's back four embarked on a brief bout of buffoonery aimed, perhaps, at evening things up a little. It did at least prompt Cobh's first crack at goal, a Mark Clifford effort from distance that forced Wayne Russell into a full-length dive to his left.

It was the first time the Welshman had been called upon to anything. With only Donal Golden representing the Cobh attack, the home side's defence had little excuse for involving their goalkeeper in things.

Kenny's side boasted half a dozen chances at least as good as Clifford's before the shot, the best being Molloy's attempt to slip the ball through Donegan's legs after Fergal Harkin had split Thomas Hughes and Willie Byrne with a nicely-weighted low through ball towards the right hand side of the area.

And while it took them a little while longer to find some sort of rhythm there were plenty more chances in the second half, most of them turned goalwards with at least a little more composure than had been shown early on.

With the Ramblers centre backs never quite coming to terms with the movement of the Bohemians strikers a second goal looked inevitable and after Crowe had missed a fine opportunity to take his record for the season to 21 goals from 30 games with a lob that was both underhit and wide of the mark, the club's top scorer turned his hand to providing instead, cutting the ball inside on the hour to an entirely unmarked Molloy who this time drove it home first time.

There should have been more, at least a couple really, but Bohemians continued to squander the chances they created. Only once late on did they do better, with Simon Webb starting the best passing move of the match and Crowe ending it from close range with a tap in. This time the linesman intervened to deprive the striker of his goal, however.

By then, though, the urgency was gone from the situation. Cobh were beaten and Bohemians had won a game they should have walked.

BOHEMIANS: Russell; Shelley, Hawkins, John, Webb; Harkin (Folan 88 mins), Hunt, Caffrey, Morrison (Dempsey 76 mins); Crowe (O'Neill 86 mins), Molloy.

COBH RAMBLERS: Donegan; L O'Connor, R O'Connor, Byrne, Hughes; Sweeney, Clifford, Wolfe, Oldham (O'Reilly 32 mins), Kabia (O'Callaghan 86 mins); Golden (Bruton 70 mins).

Referee: D Hancock (Dublin).