Cork were in rampant form as they dished out a 6-20 to 0-23 hammering to Clare at Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chíosóg in Ennis this afternoon to move up to second in the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A table.

In what was a repeat of last July’s All-Ireland SHC final, Pat Ryan’s side hit the ground running in this one with Shane Barrett lashing in their first goal in the eighth minute and Declan Dalton and Brian Hayes adding further majors over the next 18 minutes.

The visitors’ goals proved the difference at half-time (3-9 to 0-9) and within four minutes or the restart they’d hammer the Banner men’s net again via Hayes.

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Brian Lohan’s men responded with a couple of Aidan McCarthy frees, but it went from bad to worse for them when Dalton got in behind Conor Leen for a fifth Cork goal in the 47th minute ahead of Hayes completing his hat-trick two minutes later, leaving the scoreboard reading 6-14 to 0-14.

Four minutes later and the All-Ireland champions would be reduced to 14 men when Peter Duggan was issued a straight red card for a high tackle and the latter stages would see his team mate David Fitzgerald and Cork’s Cormac O’Brien also given their marching orders.

The win sees the Leesiders jump Galway in the Division 1A table and trail leaders Tipperary by a point ahead of the sixth round, with Clare now needing a freak set of results on the final round weekend to stay up.

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