A late winner for the hosts ended Glenavon's 100% away record in the Carnegie Premier League.

Neal Gawley is brought down by Cullen Feeney

The major talking point of the first half came when Neal Galwey's run was brought to an end by a challenge from Cullen Feeney. Referee Hugh Carvill decided the offence was outside the box but strangely only produced a yellow card despite the fact that Gawley was denied a clear goal scoring opportunity.

Glenavon started the game with Gawley up front in place of the injured Colm Kearney with Paul Walsh coming in for his first start in seven games. In the first minute Walsh crossed from the left for Lewis Hamlin but the striker could only direct his header wide from 10 yards out. After that there wasn’t much goalmouth action until Newry’s Steven Ferguson fired a speculative 30 yard effort into the gloves of Tuda Murphy in the 22^nd minute and a minute later Richard Clarke had a shot blocked by Gavin McDonnell with Steven Garret firing the rebound over the bar.

Eamon Murray tested Robinson with a 22 yard shot in the 36^th minute. Neal Gawley then burst through towards the Newry goal as Conor Walsh broke up an attack in the midfield but was brought down by Feeney. After booking the Newry defender, Mr Carvill placed the ball right on the edge of the box and Hamlin took the free kick but it hit the wall and was eventually cleared.

Feeney escaped again in the second half when he unceremoniously hacked down Murray, a tackle that would normally have seen him pick up a second yellow card.

Robinson did well to tip Paul Walsh’s 39^th minute shot over for a corner.

In the 53^rd minute Conor Walsh’s header from Okunayia’s free was dropped on his line by Robinson and he was grateful to McLaughlin for hacking the ball clear.

Gawley broke free again in the 57^th minute and went down in the box under a challenge but the referee waved away penalty claims but Conor Walsh forced Robinson into a full length save moments later when he fired in a low drive from distance. Glenavon had another decent penalty shout denied when the skipper went down under a clumsy challenge as he tried to get his head to a corner.

The Glenavon skipper finally broke the deadlock in the 66^th minute when Paul Walsh’s free kick was only headed by McLaughlin as far as Walsh on the edge of the box and he volleyed a great right foot shot just inside Robinson’s left hand post.

Conor Walsh scored for Glenavon against Newry City

Garrett pulled a great save out of Murphy in the 70^th minute with a close range header that the keeper parried and gathered at the second attempt.

Newry equalised three minutes later when substitute Sean Friars tricked his way to the bye line and put over a great cross that left an unmarked Garrett with a free header into an empty net.

Friars had really made a difference and in the 75^th minute he fired over another great cross that was missed by two Newry attackers before being scrambled clear.

Conor Walsh missed a great opportunity to restore the Glenavon lead in the 78^th minute when he played a one-two on the edge of the box with Hamlin but he didn’t get enough of a touch to the return ball, his shot sliding inches wide of the post. The skipper had to limp off moments later with a twisted knee.

Sean Friars grabbed all three points in the 89th minute with a close range header, despite a valiant effort by Murphy to keep it out, from Ferguson’s cross as the hosts took a quick throw in on the right.