{"id":12164,"date":"2026-01-14T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:07:27","slug":"irish-premiership-larne-extend-lead-at-top-with-big-win-over-glentoran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12164","title":{"rendered":"Irish Premiership: Larne extend lead at top with big win over Glentoran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a lively start to the game, with Larne denied by the woodwork in the opening two minutes when Sean Graham&#8217;s effort crashed off the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The away side then broke the deadlock on seven minutes when they were awarded a penalty after MJ Kamara handled the ball in the box and O&#8217;Neill fired home the resulting spot kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After conceding, the Glens settled into the game and levelled when Larne&#8217;s defence were unable to clear Cooney&#8217;s long throw before Daniel Larmour nodded home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The feisty and fast-paced tempo of the match continued with the home side reduced to 10 men when Tony Clarke gave Cooney his marching orders for a poor challenge on Graham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the final five minutes of the half, the Inver Reds went in front again with former Glens midfielder Gallagher&#8217;s shot from 30 yards finding the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The league leaders extended their lead nine minutes after the restart when Tiarnan O&#8217;Connor controlled a goal kick and travelled into the box before crossing for O&#8217;Neill to steer home for his second of the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 77th minute, James Simpson robbed Danny Amos of the ball and fed Cosgrove, who was able to convert to complete a successful night for Gary Haveron&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cedwg87yw3no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lively start to the g&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}