Havron was appointed head coach of Larne after Nathan Rooney became head of football due to not having the UEFA Pro License required for European competition.
“What a start, where do I go from here? It’s unbelievable, it means a lot and I’m so proud of the people. It’s a special night and I hope we can do more like this,” added Havron, who is in charge of the hometown club. .
“Slowly but surely, we have become, in this competition, the shamrock [Rovers] the game [a 4-1 home defeat] Something that hurt us, we didn’t represent the league as well as we could have.
“We wanted to get back into the fight and we wanted to build momentum. There’s no better way to build momentum than to beat a European powerhouse.”
Lern will now turn their focus to domestic affairs as they try to bounce back from some inconsistent early league form and make it three Premiership titles in a row.
They trail leaders Linfield by 22 points and have six games in hand on their rivals ahead of this weekend’s action and are also in the Betmaclean Cup semi-finals and County Antrim Shield final.
Havron said: “It’s up to me and the management team to deliver that level of performance week in, week out. It doesn’t make sense to do that now in a big game like this with all the razzmatazz that comes with the Conference League, so we need to use it as a springboard.
“We want to get back to this level and we want to compete at this level and take what we learned this year into next year.”
