Irish Cup: Cliftonville beat Crues as Swifts and Ards progress

With just three minutes on the clock, Carrick grabbed the opener.

A long clearance over the top of the Swifts defence was latched onto by Gibson and the striker hooked a superb volley from 25-yards out that zipped past Declan Dunne in goal and into the right-hand corner of the goal.

Ten minutes later McGovern found himself through on goal for Dungannon, but Kurtis Forsythe did brilliantly to slide in and clear the danger.

Rangers should then have doubled their advantage on 25 minutes. Joe Crowe rifled a low cross across the six-yard box finding Jack Hastings who shot on-goal, but Dunne somehow kept it out. Hastings could only find the woodwork with his rebounded effort.

At the other end McGovern went close after Rangers failed to deal with a corner, but the forward’s volley from six yards went just over the bar.

Whatever Swifts boss Rodney McAree said at half-time clearly worked as just 10 minutes after the break Gael Bigirimana played a lovely through ball from inside his own half that sent Mitchell clear.

The striker slotted the ball past the advancing Jack McIntyre and into the net via the left-hand upright.

Then on 70 minutes the Swifts turned the game on its head. Dunne punted long downfield allowing McGovern to run onto the ball with McIntyre unsure whether to come out or not and the forward punished the indecision with a calm finish.

Dungann sealed victory seven minutes later – yet another long ball in behind the Rangers defence caused havoc and McGovern was once again the man to benefit.

The forward cut back inside Cian O’Malley, showing great footwork before passing the ball into the net at the near post to send the Swifts into the last four.