McAvennie played one game for Irish League club Cliftonville in 1992, scoring in a County Antrim Shield semi-final [REF].
He then left Celtic for a second time and signed for Falkirk, newly promoted to the Scottish Premier Division for 1994-95, and scoring twice in three games before dropping down a division and returning to St Mirren on a free transfer on 14 October 1994 [REF].