Larne took the lead just after the 20 minute mark when Andrew Mills came charging out of his goal to try to beat O’Neill to the ball, but he clattered the Larne striker.
O’Neill then dusted himself down to score the spot kick, despite Mills getting a hand to it.
Glentoran got a stroke of good fortune just before the break when Marcus Kane’s low strike from outside the box took a fortuitous deflection off Hoban and wrong-footed Rohan Ferguson for an equaliser.
It was that man Hoban again who flipped the game on its head less than five minutes after the restart. The former Derry City striker met James Singleton’s beautiful ball to the back post and put the visitors ahead.
Singleton then struck the post himself before Larne had a big penalty claim when Jarlath O’Rourke looked to have used a hand to block Ryan’s header on the line.
Ryan was involved in another controversial incident from the resulting corner when he and Hoban clashed with the Glentoran forward denied his chance at a hat-trick as he was shown a straight red card with a quarter of an hour remaining for his part in the coming-together.
Despite this, it was Glentoran who had a big chance to seal the three points late on, but Jordan Jenkins couldn’t beat Ferguson one-on-one.
That would come back to bite them as, deep in stoppage time, MJ Kamson-Kamara handled in his own box to give Larne another penalty.
Ryan stepped up and, after his effort was saved initially by Mills, he buried the rebound to seal a point.
Glentoran were shown a second red card after the final whistle as Ryan Cooney was too vociferous with his views towards Shane Andrews.
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