Cork City - 6 Bray Wanderers - 0: Cork City took inspiration from the commanding performance of captain Dan Murray and the scoring exploits of hat-trick hero Roy O'Donovan to outplay Bray Wanderers at Turner's Cross and move into second place in the Premier Division.

Murray claimed two goals as Cork enjoyed a feeding frenzy on a night when Bray surrendered too many scoring chances to hope to contain a very sharp and focused Cork side who set up a club record by their win.

Cork's previous best was a 5-0 success in 1998 and O'Donovan became the first player to score a hat-trick for them since John O'Flynn in 2002.

The game was over as a contest early as Bray conceded two goals in the first nine minutes of the match. They had no answer to the pace of O'Donovan who was an effective replacement for injured centre forward O'Flynn.

O'Donovan frightened the life out of the Bray defence with his lightning pace and it was no coincidence that he should have been involved in almost all of Cork's goals.

He scored the first after six minutes, calmly finishing a move that involved Admir Softic and Joe Gamble. Then, in the 42nd minute, he delicately played a return pass into the path of the speeding Murray which allowed the Cork captain stride into the penalty area unchallenged before slipping the ball past goalkeeper Gary Rogers.

This was Cork's fourth goal for Murray had claimed their second on nine minutes when he hammered home a header from Neale Fenn's accurate left-wing corner.

Billy Woods had the third in the 28th minute, firing in from the left after a cross from Neal Horgan had skidded across the penalty area.

O'Donovan embarrassed the Bray defence again four minutes into the second-half, racing down the left from halfway on to Murray's pass and tucking his shot under the goalkeeper.

The striker added Cork's sixth and his third in the 67th minute when he raced clear on to Danny Murphy's pass after Bray passed up a couple of chances to cut the deficit.

Paul Caffrey had a shot chested off the line by Alan Bennett, goalkeeper Michael Devine bravely dived at Stephen Fox's feet to save another and Caffrey miskicked when he seemed certain to score.

CORK CITY: Devine; Horgan, Bennett, Murray, Murphy; O'Brien (Behan, 69 mins), Softic, Gamble, Woods (O'Callaghan, 69 mins); Fenn, O'Donovan (Sullivan, 78 mins).

BRAY WANDERERS: Rogers; Ivory, Tresson, Deans, Ryan (Roche, 53 mins); Georgescu (Cousins, 87 mins), Caffrey, O'Reilly, Tyrell; O'Shea (O'Brien, 63 mins), Fox.

Referee: D Hancock (Dublin).