This was Celtic's first mid week game of the season, and despite the opposition and the ref showing up a half hour late, Celtic started the game like a whirlwind.  Eoin O'Brien and Mark Conroy started the game where they left off on the previous Sunday, on fire, with O'Brien and Conroy tearing the Dunshauglin left back to bits. Eoin O'Brien went close in the first 5 mins with a bullet header only to see the visiting keper turn it on the top of the bar.

Then Conroy ripped down the wing to cross for Brian Slevin to end his goal drought when he hit his 42^nd goal of the season.

Not to be outdone, the Celtic left wing pairing of Gareth O'Hara and Dermot Murray, (just off the plane from Capetown), were making mince meat of the right back.  Murray played the ball past the ful back to go to the line to cross for conor byrne who scored a cracking left foot drive.  2-0 and game over.

Manager Slevin made  4 subs but you wouldn't have noticed.  Celtic were now rampant and came forward in wave after wave of attack, Slevin adding number 43 and byrne adding his 38^th to make it 4-nil (and a collective 80 goals for the deadly striking partnership).

Eoin O'Brien was wonderfully in touch on the left when he cut inside to drill the ball in for number 5.

But Celtic had saved the best to last when O'Brien burst the Dunshauglin net with a contender for goal of the season from 30 yards with the outside of his right foot.

Celtic now went down a gear as they prepared for the top of the table clash with Clontarf on Sunday, but still should have run out winners by double figures except for the opposition keeper .

Dermot Murray was man of the match on his return from africa, but the referee was fulsome in his praise for the whole team, commenting that it was a joy to watch a team so young playing such top class football.