Sporting Digest: Football

KILMARNOCK have paid Manchester United pounds 530,000 for striker Colin McKee and central defender Neil Whitworth. Both have signed three-year deals and 21-year-old McKee returns to Scotland after leaving Glasgow as a 16-year-old for Old Trafford.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND'S UNDER-21 TEAM (v Latvia, Riga, tonight) from: Given (Blackburn), Breen (Peterborough), Greene (Luton), Hardy (Wrexham, capt), Gallen (Doncaster), Sheridan (Coventry), Boland (Coventry), Cavanagh, Moore (both Middlesbrough), Launders (Crystal Palace), Kennedy (Millwall). Substitutes: Colgan (Chelsea), O'Donnell (Liverpool), Farrelly (Aston Villa), Perkins (Southend), Scully (Crystal Palace).