Only a Glens win would keep the title race alive but the Blues now have an unassailable 19-point lead with both sides to play six more games.

It’s a record-extending 57th Gibson Cup success for the Windsor Park club and their first since 2022.

Glentoran let slip a 2-0 lead after a Joe Thomspon double put them control with Paul O’Neill pulling one back before Andy Ryan levelled from a penalty.

It was also 2-2 between Coleraine and Cliftonville at the Showgrounds with all the goals coming in the second half.

Ryan Curran gave the Reds a 66th-minute lead but Matthew Shevlin equalised from the spot before putting the Bannsiders 2-1 in front.

Curran converted a penalty three minutes from time to earn the north Belfast visitors a point.

Thomson opened the scoring against his former club in the 11th minute, seizing on a weak clearance to half-volley through a crowded box with Rohan Ferguson unable to keep it out as the ball trickled across the line.

Declan Devine’s charges tightened their grip minutes after the restart.

Dylan Connolly’s deflected cross looped towards the edge of the area, where Thomson scuffed an effort that crept into the bottom corner to make it 2-0.

But the visitors roared back just before the hour mark. Graham’s fierce drive stung the palms of Daniel Gyollai, and when Ryan’s follow-up broke kindly for O’Neill, the striker stabbed home from close range to set up a tense final half-hour.

The turnaround was complete in the 67th minute. Aaron Wightman clattered into Graham inside the box, leaving the referee with little choice.

Up stepped Ryan, who sent Gyollai the wrong way from 12 yards to draw the away side level.

The east Belfast side should have been out of sight by then, with Thomson spurning a golden first-half chance.

Meanwhile, the visitors thought they had equalised on the stroke of half-time, only for O’Neill’s cool finish from a Tomas Cosgrove cross to be ruled offside.

Curran’s deflected effort fired the visitors in front shortly after the hour before Shevlin replied from the penalty spot after he had been dragged to the ground by Luke Conlan.

Shevlin added his second – and his 20th of the season – 10 minutes from the end with a vollyed finish but Curran ensured parity, scoring a late penalty after Joey Gormley was fouled by Rory Brown.

In contrast to a dramatic second period, neither goalkeeper had a save to make in an evenly contested first half.

The deadlock was finally broken Curran ended a sweeping move – started by Axel Piesold – by sweeping a deflected shot past a helpless Brown in the Coleraine goal.

Five minutes later the sides were level as Shevlin bagged his 19th goal of the campaign as he beat Ridd with a low penalty into the corner.

Shevlin netted his second of the match nine minutes from time, in the right place at the right time to net from close range after Ridd saved Levi Ives’ low drive.

But back came Cliftonville to level with a penalty of their own in the 87th minute as Curran sent Brown the wrong way from the spot.

Both teams had chances to win the game in the dying moments but it ended all-square on a dramatic night.