Career
As an international, Kane has played for both for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at under-21 level In November 2006 he had a brief loan spell at Stockport County before joining Cercle Brugge on another loan deal in January 2007. On 10 February 2009, Kane signed a loan deal which took him to Carlisle United until the end of the season.
On 22 May 2009, it was announced by Carlisle United manager Greg Abbott that a deal had been verbally agreed between Carlisle United and Premier League side Blackburn Rovers to make the loan move a permanent one.
Kane will be signing a two-year-deal with the Cumbria based team On 17 September 2009 Carlisle United agreed to send Kane to Darlington on a month long loan deal.
Following an impressive pre-season, he joined Ballymena United in July 2011 and made his debut against Lisburn Distillery in August 2011 but was sent-off late in the game. He scored his first goal for the Sky Blues against his former club, Cliftonville, in September at Solitude.
Together with Michael O"Connor, Marc Wilson and Darron Gibson, Kane is one of several football players born in Northern Ireland, who were involved in a dispute between the Irish Football Association (IFA), which organizes football in Northern Ireland, and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), which organizes football in the Republic of Ireland, over international eligibility.
A test case was taken by the IFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which found that Fédération internationale de football association was correctly applying its player eligibility regulations in allowing such players to represent the FAI. Northern Ireland
Kane initially represented Northern Ireland at both under-18 and under-19 levels, before playing for the Republic of Ireland U21s during the 2006-2007 season. He subsequently switched allegiances back to Northern Ireland and in November 2007 was called up for the senior team To date he has played twice against Israel and in games against Luxembourg and Moldova.
On 26 March 2008 he also played in a 3-1 friendly defeat against Romania.
Republic of Ireland
On 27 March, he played in a 1–0 defeat against the Netherlands before making his final appearance for the Republic U-21s on 21 August 2007 in 2–2 draw with Germany.