Cork City 3 Dundalk 0:CORK CITY saved their best home performance for last at Turner's Cross last night, as they easily accounted for bottom of the table Dundalk in a one-sided game.
Lilywhites boss Darius Kierans, without a host of players for the trip south, admitted in the run-up to the game that he already had one eye on their relegation play-off against either Longford or Waterford.
Yet the level of the performance shown against a Cork outfit that has blown hot and cold this season will give him much cause for concern.
The biggest surprise was that it took the home side a quarter of the game to break the deadlock, Gearóid Morrissey drilling to the bottom right corner of the net.
Within five minutes the lead was doubled through Cork’s top scorer, Vinny Sullivan, who netted his 12th goal of the campaign, and what followed was a procession.
Just three minutes after the restart Shane Duggan made it 3-0 to Cork as struggling Dundalk were left with plenty to ponder.
CORK CITY: McNulty; Dunleavy, Kavanagh, K Murray, Murphy; Turner (Kenny 62), G Morrissey, Duggan, Healy, Horgan (D Morrissey 76); Sullivan (O’Neill 62).
DUNDALK: Cherrie; Whelan (Gaul 60), Thomas, Shields, Murphy; McDonald, McDonnell (Burns 46), Maher, Walsh; Woods (Conlon 72), Griffin.
Referee: Pádraig Sutton (Clare).
