The 25-year-old slotted home the match winner on 77 minutes after David Munster upended Shane Coney to give referee Brian Turkington no option but to point to the spot.

It moved Dixie Robinson's Swifts into pole position for the first time in almost four years and left them standing alone as the only side able to boast a 100% record after three rounds of the new campaign.

Newry might have opened the scoring as early as the ninth minute only for Alan Davidson to fire tamely at 'keeper Alvin Rouse when well placed while, not long after, Chris Morgan - fresh from his hat-trick at the weekend - sent a ball just wide of the target from 25 yards.

The Swifts showed more promise after the break when McCafferty and then Adam McMinn tested the home goal with the latter somehow lifting the ball over the bar from barely six yards while City's best effort was another Morgan attempt around the hour mark.