UL BOHEMIAN almost made the knock-out stages last season but if the ruthless manner in which they dealt with Terenure College yesterday is a reliable yardstick, they'll certainly be there or thereabouts again this time round.

Terenure ran away with Division Two of the AIB League last season; yesterday they were given a rude awakening to top-flight life.

As early as the second minute James O'Neill forced his way over for a try that Tom Luke converted. Even though Brian Flanagan landed a Terenure penalty, it was oneway traffic as Martin McPhail showed his footballing craft with a two neatly-taken tries.

Bohs led 17-3 at half time and extended the lead shortly after the resumption when Mark Butler touched down.

Then it was the turn of number eight of O'Neill to touch down after a clever line-out gambit and again Martin added the points to stretch the lead to 31-3. Number eights O'Neill and Andy Dunlop exchanged tries before Ben Martin got a beauty for the home side and tapped over the conversion himself.

UL BOHEMIAN M Butler; M McPhail, T Luke (L O'Connor), C Finn, I Hanley; B Martin, F Lawlor; K Flanagan, G Ryan (F Leonard), M Storey (G Walsh), B Madigan (K Barry), A Hartigan, R Hartigan, JE O'Connor, J O'Neill.

TERENURE COLLEGE G Crawford; A Hughes, R O'Connor, M Smith (K Coleman), B Flanagan; S Cullen (M O'Neill), D Hegarty; J Barretto (M Hamilton), J Blaney (K O'Mahony), S Nolan, D O'Doherty, K O'Dwyer, A Egan (P Egan), C Conneally, A Dunlop.

Referee C Stanley (Ulster).