The Hoops opened the scoring on 15 minutes through Daniel Lyons who completed a move which began when Gavin Melaugh played Sean Armstrong clear who hit the post with an effort of his own before the ball fell for Lyons.

That was how it stayed until two minutes short of the hour when Aidan McVeigh curled a left-foot shot home inside the opposite post from a Paul Walsh cross.

Then, on 72 minutes, McConnell knocked home his first of the game after some sloppy home defending allowed him to finish off a Gerard McMahon cross.

Celtic levelled just two minutes later, however, through Armstrong who despatched a curling left-foot drive beyond the reach of Paul Rice.