Bangor collected their first win of the season with a comfortable 3-1 win over Portadown at Clandeboye Park.

Lee Feeney's men went ahead in the first half through captain Lewis Harrison, while Portadown lost Lewis MacKinnon to a straight red card before the break.

A quickfire Bangor double followed just after the break with Lucas McRoberts and Iestyn Hughes scoring, although they did concede an own-goal to leave their fans sweating for the last 15 minutes.

David Jeffrey's struggles as Ports boss continue as they are still without a victory as they failed to back up Tuesday's impressive draw with Linfield.

Both these sides are currently in the bottom half of the Premiership standings with only one win each in their last five fixtures and will see today's game as a must-not-lose affair.

The Glens continue with Paddy McCourt and Tim McCann as interim coaches and after their impressive win over Cliftonville last week it is no surprise that they only make the two changes today. In comes James Singleton and Jordan Jenkins as the east Belfast side go in search of their first home league win since the 2-0 win over Limavady United on the opening day of the season at the start of August.

For Rangers boss Stephen Baxter, it is four games without victory after their positive start to the season and he makes three changes from the side that lost heavily to Larne last weekend.

Baxter is fortunate to be able to introduce a magnitude of experience this afternoon with league stalwarts Seanan Clucas, Matthew Snoddy and Paul Heatley all coming back into the fold and they seek to get their campaign back on track.

Glentoran: Mills, Cooney, Kane (c), Clarke, Stewart, Sloggett, Brown, Gallagher, Larmour, Douglas, Singleton.

Subs: Crellin, Sule, Kelly, Daniels, McMenamin, Gallagher, Rogers-Duffy.

Carrick Rangers: Gartside, Callacher (c), Nelson, Buchanan-Rolleston, Clucas, Forsythe, Steele, Heatley, Gibson, Lecky, Snoddy.

Subs: Agnew, O'Connor, Maciulaitis, Moore, Crown, Hawthorne, Carlisle.

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Glentoran interim boss Paddy McCourt says that the opportunity to manage the club is "an absolutely brilliant job for somebody".

McCourt has overseen the club's last two games alongside Tim McCann after Declan Devine was relieved of his duties on Monday.

Alongside McCann, McCourt guided the Glens to their first win in five games as they beat Cliftonville 2-1 at Solitude on Saturday.

Reds boss Jim Magilton rejected the chance to take over at the Oval and while McCourt has already stated he does not want the job permanently, he would like to remain at the club in some capacity.

"I'm an employee of Glentoran Football Club, and I'll dig in as much as I can until I speak to the decision makers when a new manager is announced," he told BBC Sport NI.

"The one thing I have to say is this is an absolutely brilliant job for somebody. It really is. The support you get from the owner and the board.

"Whoever gets this job is walking into a really good group of players. I just hope for the sake of the club they get the appointment right. I genuinely don't know where that's at, but I'm sure there's work going on in the background."

Goals from Jack Malone, who was sent off, and substitute Jordan Jenkins secured the victory for the Glens in north Belfast and McCourt was pleased they edged an entertaining encounter and claimed a crucial three points.

"I thought it was a good game. Delighted to come out on the right side of it, both teams had chances, Millsy (Andrew Mills) makes a couple of really important saves at crucial times but we had some really good chances too and it was a good game to watch I'd say."

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Paul O'Neill scored a hat-trick as Larne withstood a Carrick Rangers fightback to continue their unbeaten start to their Irish Premiership title defence with a 5-2 victory.

O'Neill struck twice early on while Dan Bent's penalty had the champions three goals clear before Danny Gibson scored twice in first-half injury time to reduce the deficit.

O'Neill completed his hat-trick in the second period as Carrick threatened a comeback.

Bent then scored a second penalty after Carrick's Joe Crowe was sent off to ensure Larne go into the international break in positive fashion.

Jordan Jenkins came off the bench to earn managerless Glentoran a much-needed 2-1 win at Cliftonville.

Jack Malone, who would pick up a red card with three minutes to go, headed the Glens in front in the 15th minute before Dean McMaster's third free-kick goal of the season levelled matters on 33 minutes.

The Reds wasted several opportunities in the second half to edge in front, with Shaun Leppard going closest when he rattled a volley off the crossbar.

It was to prove costly as Jenkins struck the winner on 83 minutes to give Glentoran only their fourth league win of the season, and bring a difficult week for the Oval outfit to a close.

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Linfield joined Coleraine at the top of the table with a resounding 3-1 win at the Showgrounds.

Adam Frizzell fired the visitors in front after just nine minutes before captain Chris Shields doubled their advantage midway through the opening half.

Kobei Moore's first goal for the club gave them a 3-0 advantage just before the hour mark, moments after Matthew Shevlin's goal for the hosts was disallowed by referee Evan Boyce.

Shevlin did score his fifth of the season 14 minutes from full-time but it wasn't enough to prevent the hosts slumping to a first defeat in 15 games, while David Healy's men made it back-to-back wins.

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Here's how the table looks ahead of today's action in the Irish Premiership.

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Good afternoon and welcome to another super Saturday of Irish League action.

Linfield's 3-1 win over Coleraine last night saw the Blues go level at the top of the table, but there could be further movement in the standings by the close of play today.

Limavady United welcome Cliftonville to the Showgrounds, while Glentoran will seek to build on last week's win over the Reds when they host Carrick Rangers.

Crusaders have Bangor for company at Seaview this afternoon and Ballymena United host a Portadown side seeking their first win of the campaign.

We'll have live updates and all the goals for you to enjoy with match reports and highlights to follow, so sit back and enjoy.

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