A THREE goal salvo in the space of six minutes saw Bray ease to victory in this end of season dead rubber against a Drogheda side that had all the appearance of an outfit already in close season mode.

Bray hit the front in the second minute when in biblical terms the home defence parted like the red sea allowing Gary Shaw race through and pick his spot.

Drogheda had chances to level as Tiarnan Mulvenna shot straight at Darren Quigley and Lee Lynch clipped a shot narrowly wide.

Bray then ran amok in a six minute spell rattling the net three times as the United defence imploded. Dan McGuinness began the rout as he drifted diagonally across the box wrong footing several defenders before hitting the target.

McGuinness then turned provider for John Mulroy who unmarked sent a header home before Gary Dempsey’s strike from twenty-five yards nestled in the top corner to make it four nil.

In the second half Daire Doyle went close to nabbing a fifth for the visitors while Gavin Brennan with a free and Mulvenna’s header weren’t far away from getting Drogheda off the mark.

United did manage to take the bare look off the scoreboard before the finish when Philip Hand’s free deflected off Conor Murphy into his own goal.  

DROGHEDA UNITED: Trimble, Quigley, Hand (Melis 81), Rogers, Gannon, Lynch, O’Brien, McMahon (Clarke H/T), White (Corcoran H/T), Mulvenna, Brennan.

BRAY WANDERERS: Quigley, Doyle, Butler, Mitchell, Webster, Dempsey, McGuinness, Zambra, Shaw (Murphy 65), Mulroy (Waters 84), Kelly (Early 81).

REFEREE: N Doyle (Dublin)