Harlequins to wear O’Neills kit

MUNSTER’S opponents in this week’s Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final have signed a four-year deal with kit manufacturers O’Neill’s, which marks a significant breakthrough in the English market for the Irish company.

The deal with Harlequins is the brand’s first with a professional rugby union outfit and comes after considerable time and effort spent building recognition of thecompany in the south-west ofEngland, where over 30 clubs now wear their logo.

“Those little rungs on the ladder have given us the ability to get the tender for the Harlequins contract,” said one of thecompany’s UK sales managers,Peter Kennedy. “This will nowfurther our development of the rugby union brand in the UKmarket.”