Bohemians 8 Ringmahon Rangers 0It may have been the facile win manager Stephen Kenny wanted ahead of Bohemians' UEFA Cup return with Levadia Tallinn on Tuesday, though such one-sided games as this hardly enhance the glamour of the FAI Cup.
Out of season, the Munster Senior League side from Cork were simply outclassed from the start.
Playing in their away colours of all blue, in deference to their visitors, who lined out in red and black stripes, Bohemians made themselves feel very much at home, nonetheless, to take a 12th-minute lead and end the contest by the interval when they were 5-0 up, scarcely having broken sweat.
The warning signs were all too evident from the start for the Rangers defence as Dave Morrison ghosted in to force a good parry save from keeper Colm O'Leary from Damien Lynch's cross a minute before the opener.
O'Leary was then helpless as Tony Grant raced through onto Bobby Ryan's pass to casually slide the ball home.
The excellent Morrison made no mistake with a similar chance to his earlier one when powering a header to the net from Ryan's cross for the second goal on 19 minutes.
The floodgates then opened as Bohemians scored three times inside nine minutes midway through the half.
The third came on 26 minutes with Grant turning to shoot in off a post after Morrison had little difficulty in picking him out 10 yards from goal.
To add to Rangers' woes, the unfortunate Stephen O'Donovan put through his own goal from a Morrison cross six minutes later before Stephen Ward added the fifth - a tap-in courtesy of Grant's low cross.
Grant ought to have completed his hat-trick in first-half stoppage time.
O'Leary pushed his header onto a post before he contrived to miscue with the goal gaping before him.
Ward added the sixth goal just past the hour mark, the pick of the half dozen, his rising left-foot shot from 25 yards finding the top corner.
The hat-trick arrived for teenager Ward six minutes later when he headed home Ryan's cross after the Ringmahon defence had failed to clear a corner.
And Rangers could only look on bewildered as Glen Crowe came on as a substitute to add an eighth goal three minutes from the end.
BOHEMIANS: Gregg; Lynch, Oman (Logan, half-time), McNally, Keddy; Ryan, Rice, Caffrey, Morrison (Heary, 60 mins); Grant (Crowe, 79 mins), Ward.
RINGMAHON RANGERS: C O'Leary; R Kenny, Foley, S O'Donovan, Mulconry; Delaney, Deasy (Aherne, 80 mins), Sullivan, Jones (O'Riordan, 53 mins); B Kenny, De Puis (P O'Leary, 65 mins).
Referee: D McKeon (Dublin).
