Cork and Waterford won their opening matches in the Munster MHC this evening.

The Leesiders strolled to a facile 5-26 to 0-9 victory over Kerry in their quarter-final at Pairc Ui Rinn. The Rebels took control of proceedings from the off and led by 1-14 to 0-3 at the break, with Killeagh-Ita's clubman Eoghan Keniry grabbing the goal in the 21st minute.

Keniry fired his second major eleven minutes after the restart and Billy Dunne added a third goal for the winners twelve minutes from the end. Luke Meade helped himself to a brace of three-pointers in the 56th and 57th minutes as the hosts eased through to the semi-finals. The Kingdom will get at least one more game in the loser's group.

Meanwhile, at Ennis, Waterford came from behind in a fourth-quarter-surge to defeat Clare by 1-13 to 0-11, having trailed by 0-11 to 0-8.

The Banner County led by seven points to five at the interval and the sides added three points each in the first eleven minutes of the second half: 0-10 to 0-8 after 41.

Clare edged further ahead but Na Deise - who fielded four of the team that started last year's All-Ireland final victory - reeled off three successive scores to draw level with five minutes left, 0-11 apiece.

Darragh Lyons' point edged the visitors in front for the first time and second-half substitute Eddie Meaney's goal left four between the teams with two minutes left.

Cork - P Collins; C Walsh, S Bourke, E Gunning; S O'Brien, A O'Callaghan, D Browne; S O'Donoghue, D Meaney (0-1); L Meade (2-4), T O'Connor (0-3), D Lee (0-7); M Dolan, S Hayes (0-6, 5f), E Keniry (2-4). Subs: D Casey for T O'Connor, B Dunne (1-0) for M Dolan, D Buckley (0-1) for S O'Donoghue, D Dooling for D Meaney, J O'Sullivan for E Keniry.

Kerry - S Murphy; S O'Sullivan, J Barrett, A O'Mahony; M Lynch, D Shanahan, M Leane; B Barrett (0-4f), F O'Sullivan; J Buckley, M O'Leary (0-2), J Brick; Joe Diggins, J Goulding, F Mackessy. Subs: R Collins (0-1) for M Lynch, Jason Diggins for J Barrett, D O'Carroll for F O'Sullivan, J Conway (0-1) for J Brick, A Murphy (0-1) for B Barrett.

Referee - T Walsh.
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Waterford - B Nolan; D Prendergast, E Hayden, D Lyons (0-1); C Prunty, S Bennett (0-1f), S Murray; C Gleeson, E O'Halloran (0-1); J Allen, C Curran, S Ryan (0-1f); P Hogan (0-1), P Curran (0-7, 6f), A Molumby. Subs: S Hogan for J Allen, M Cronin for A Molumby, J Mullaney for E O'Halloran, E Meaney (1-1) for S Ryan, J Kennedy for C Curran.

Clare - J Loughnane; J McCarthy, S Downey, R Hayes; S Fitzgerald, D Walsh, J Arthur; M O'Malley, G Whyte; I Galvin (0-2), M O'Shea (0-2), D Chaplin; P McNamara, A Shanagher (0-7, 6f, 1'65), B Guilfoyle. Subs: C Fitzgerald for G Whyte, C Quigley for M O'Shea, C O'Halloran for M O'Malley.

Referee - J Murphy. Tweet

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