Bray Wanderers booked their place in the FAI Ford Cup quarter-finals but not before being given a searching work-out by "A Championship" side Tralee Dynamos in last night's fourth round tie at the Carlisle Grounds.

First half goals from John Flood and Dave Webster settled the issue for the Seagulls against the first ever Kerry side to reach this stage of the competition.

Before a pitifully small crowd of just 500, at least half of them from Tralee, Dynamos belied their non-league status with a battling performance against their Premier Division rivals.

The Tralee men had an early chance when a free on the right by Jamie McIntyre was collected by lone striker Eoin Cassidy only to see his close range effort blocked by Bray midfielder Dave Mulcahy.

Bray did have half chances when first Dane Massey had a header just wide of the target after a Mucahy cross from the right. Then a long range effort by defender Daire Doyle was comfortably gathered by Tralee 'keeper Wayne Guthrie.

Massey then had another effort well saved by Guthrie before Bray eventually broke the deadlock on 31 minutes. A cross by Massey was this time spilled by Guthrie and striker John Flood was on hand to take advantage and shoot home from close range.

Defender Dave Webster had one long range effort prior to the Seagulls stretching their lead in the third minute of first half added time after a foul by Brian Fitzgerald on Flood. From the resulting free by Massey, defender Dave Webster fired home home from 20 yards to the corner of the net giving Guthrie no chance.

Dynamos refused to throw in the towel and early in the second half, McIntyre ran on to an opening from Peter McCarthy only to hook his shot over the bar when well placed.

Then Chris Kerins had a shot across the face of the goal with no forwards up to take advantage.

The Kerry side kept pressing forward in a bid to reduce the deficit and twice went close to piercing the home defence. After Daire Doyle conceded a corner, the ball was swung in by McCarthy only for Fitzgerald to head wide.

Then a James Sugrue free from the edge of the penalty area struck a wall of Bray defenders and away to safety for a corner. Dynamos were not lacking in self belief but it was their finishing that let them down.

It was Bray who should really have stretched their lead on 70 minutes when Mulcahy put substitute Jake Kelly in the clear. But his effort was well blocked by the legs of 'keeper Guthrie.

And there were futher heroics from Guthrie when he got down to brilliantly push away a powerful 12 yards effort from Bray winger Gary McCabe.

To their credit, Dynamos kept plugging away in the final minutes and it required a push over the bar by home 'keeper Chris O'Connor to deny Theo Diggins long range effort after he latched onto a pass by fellow substitute Wayne Conway.

Bray Wanderers: O'Connor; Doyle, Deans, Webster, Pender; McCabe, Mulcahy, D.O'Neill (Coughlan 55), Massey; S.O'Neill (Kelly 68), Flood (Mulroy 59).

Tralee Dynamos: Guthrie; Burrows, B.Fitzgerald (Duggan 85), O'Rahilly, Crotty; McCarthy (Conway 80), Quirke, Sugrue (Diggins 85), McIntyre, Kerins; Cassidy.

Referee: Derek Tomney.