Liam Boyce scored his first Northern Ireland goal in the win over New Zealand to stake his claim for a starting berth in next week's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has told referee Don Robertson he owes Erik Sviatchenko an apology after his Dingwall gaffe.

Celtic 2 Cliftonville 0 (Agg: 5-0)

Goals from Mikael Lustig, Georgios Samaras and James Forrest gave Celtic a comfortable win over Cliftonville tonight.

Ciaran Kilduff proved Shamrock Rovers’ supersub with a dramatic stoppage time winner as they beat Coleraine 2-0 at the Showgrounds for a 2-1 aggregate victory to set up a cracking Setanta Sports Cup quarter-final tie with Linfield.

Cork City 4 Cliftonville 0

A goal on his 23rd birthday from Dinny Corcoran and a wonderful strike from Karl Moore got Aaron Callaghan’s Bohemians reign off to the uplifting start that all at Dalymount Park would have hoped for as they’ll take a deserved 2-1 lead to Portadown for next week's second leg.

Northern Ireland are certain to be without injured pair Kyle Lafferty and Aaron Hughes for tomorrow’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovenia, with both men back at their clubs for treatment.

Millwall striker Josh McQuoid will train with Northern Ireland this morning after being added to the squad for tomorrow’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovenia at Windsor Park.

Northern Ireland boss Nigel Worthington will spend the next two days pondering the cost of last night’s Euro 2012 qualifying defeat to Serbia.

Record goalscorer David Healy has returned to the Northern Ireland squad for the Carling Nations Cup match against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on February 9, while there is also a first senior call-up for teenage striker Liam Boyce.

Northern Ireland Under-21 star Liam Boyce has joined German outfit Werder Bremen on a two-year-deal.

There was still no official word from Tottenham or Real Madrid last night on whether Harry Redknapp had managed to pull off the biggest coup of transfer deadline day by signing Rafael van der Vaart.

Tottenham were tonight sweating on clearance to make the signing of Rafael van der Vaart the biggest coup of transfer deadline day as the window closed in unexpected drama.

Robinho’s final exit from Manchester City and Sunderland’s club-record signing of Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan were the biggest deals completed on a quiet transfer deadline day.

Cliftonville 2 Sligo Rovers 3