Cork are through to the Munster minor football championship semi-finals after hammering Limerick by 6-15 to 1-7 at Pairc Ui Rinn.

With 1,280 spectators watching on, Cork hit the ground running and led by a whopping 21 points at half time, 4-11 to 0-2. Michael Hurley was the star of that opening half-hour, helping himself to 2-4.

The Rebels got off to a dream start as full forward Hurley netted a fabulous goal inside the first minute, the Castlehaven clubman having already opened the scoring with a point. When Douglas' Shane Kingston (2) and midfielder Brian Coakley added scores, Donal O'Sullivan's charges led by 1-4 to no score after just eight minutes.

The on-song Hurley tagged on a brace of points, which were followed by further points from Seamus Ronayne and Kingston before Ballyclough's Damien Buckley delivered the second Rebels goal to leave 14 points between the teams at the end of the first quarter, 2-8 to no score.

Hurley followed up instantly with the third Cork major, with Kingston and Sean O'Donoghue tagging on further scores before the shell-shocked Treaty County opened their account in the 22nd minute - 3-10 to 0-1.

Indeed, the visitors hit two successive points but that only seemed to ire the Leesiders, who snatched a fourth goal courtesy of Inniscarra's O'Donoghue. Buckley followed up with a free to give the Rebel County an insurmountable 4-11 to 0-2 interval advantage.

The one-way traffic continued after the restart as Maidc Ó Duinnín, Hurley and Buckley (free) increased the gap. Jerry O'Sullivan's lads managed to work a goal ten minutes into the second half but Cork replied with a long-range missile from Buckley on 42 minutes: 4-15 to 1-2.

Within minute, Buckley claimed his second goal of the game to leave 25 points separating the teams approaching the three-quarters stage.

Substitute Chris Moynihan (Gabriel Rangers) was on hand to supply the winners' sixth goal five minutes from the end. Limerick fired the last three scores of the game but they lost by 23 in the end and will face Clare in the loser's section.

Cork are through to the last four, where they will meet whoever emerges from the loser's section. Kerry and Tipperary will contest the other semi-final.

Cork - C O'Driscoll; C O'Donovan, S Powter, K Flahive; T Bushe, D Meaney, C Kiely; S O'Leary, B Coakley (0-1); S O'Donoghue (1-1), M O Duinnin (0-1), S Ronayne (0-1); D Buckley (2-2, 0-2f), M Hurley (2-4, 0-1f), S Kingston (0-5). Subs: D O'Neill for C Kiely, C Moynihan (1-0) for S O'Donoghue, M Collins for D Meaney, M Cottrell for M Hurley, J Mullins for T Bushe, A Kidney for C O'Driscoll.

Limerick - A Brudair; L O'Connell, S Murphy, S Brosnan; F O'Grady, C Flanagan, S Ivess; T Childs (0-1), M Reidy; M Morrissey (1-2), R Hayes (0-2f), K Daly; C Burke, K Ryan, S Stack. Subs: D Noonan for L O'Connell, B Stack for S Murphy, D Hanley for S Ivess, G McCarthy (0-1) for C Burke, D Macken for F O'Grady, B Hurley (0-1) for K Daly.

Referee - S Mulvihill. Tweet

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