Corofin put on an exhibition in disposing of Clann na nGael in today’s Connacht Club SFC semi-final at Dr Hyde Park.

The reigning Connacht and All-Ireland champions ran out comfortable 4-22 to 0-7 winners to book a final date with Mayo’s Ballintubber who defeated Aughawillan by 3-11 to 1-8.

First-half goals from Colin Brady and Micheal Lundy set the tone for this runaway success and the second-half followed a similar pattern with Jason Leonard raising two green flags.

The home side’s cause wasn’t helped by the dismissal of Ultan Harney at the end of the opening period and a black card shown to Donie Shine but, from their point of view, the damage was done by that stage.

The game was effectively over as a contest at the halfway stage with the Galway men 2-10 to 0-3 to the good.

Kevin O’Brien’s charges made light of the absence of injured All-Star Ian Burke and Daithi Burke, who is in Australia with the Galway hurlers, to qualify for their fifth provincial final in-a-row.

Corofin - B Power; C Silke, K Fitzgerald, L Silke (0-1); K Molloy, D McHugh, D Wall (0-2); Ciaran Brady, R Steede (0-1); G Sice (0-2, 1f), Michael Farragher (0-1), J Leonard (2-6, 0-3f, 0-1'45); Martin Farragher (0-1), Colin Brady (1-1), M Lundy (1-3). Subs: C Cunningham for D Wall, D Canney (0-2) for Colin Brady, D Silke (0-2) for G Sice, G Burke for L Silke, B O’Donovan for Michael Farragher, C McGrath for D McHugh.

Clann na nGael - R O’Reilly; D Pettit, S Flynn, R Gavin; D Connaughton, G Pettit, S Pettit; U Harney, C Shine (0-1); C McManus, D Shine (0-2f), E Kenny (0-1); D McManus, C Lennon (0-2f), J Fahy. Subs: M Scally for D McManus, C Callinan (0-1) for D Shine (BC), J Dunning for J Fahy, D Sumner for C McManus, D Duff for R Gavin, N Connaughton for E Kenny.

Referee - J Henry.

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