A three-minute scoring blitz immediately after the change of ends smoothed Kerry's way to the Munster minor football championship title at Thurles yesterday.

Limerick put in a magnificent first-half effort and, thanks to Jeremy Staunton and Eddie Scully, raced into a 0-6 to 0-2 interval lead.

The Kerry resurgence started within 80 seconds of the interval when Ronan O'Connor pointed. Paul Galvin added another and before Limerick had time to settle, O'Connor punched the ball over the head of the advancing Sean Lyons for the killer blow for Limerick. After that Kerry completely dominated.

Kerry: K Cremin; R O'Connor, Stephen O'Sullivan, K Moynihan; M O Se, E Courtney (0-1), R O'Connor; K O'Connor, L Keane; Sean O'Sullivan (0-3), L Boyle, T Kennelly (1-1); R O'Connor (1-1), C Fitzmaurice, K Lynch (0-2). Subs: E Brosnan (0-1) for R O'Connor, P Galvin (0-2) for Fitzmaurice, M Burke for K O'Connor.

Limerick: S Lyons; A Woods, J Stokes, D Dinneen; W Kelly, B Geary, A O'Rahilly; J Galvin (0-1), J Lydon; C Mullane, M Culhane, J Staunton (0-1), C Fitzgerald, E Scully (0-5), C Hickey (0-1). Subs:

M Keane for Culhane, S Lucey for O Rahilly. Referee: P Russell (Tipperary).