Kerry were a long way off their best at a sparsely populated Croke Park on Sunday afternoon but they didn't need to be as they cruised into the last four of the All-Ireland SFC at Limerick's expense.
The Kingdom had 11 points to spare over the men from the Treaty County when the sides met at the semi-final stage of the Munster SFC on June 4 at the Gaelic Grounds and went two better on this occasion, running out very comfortable 1-20 to 0-10 winners in this the second of the quarter-finals.
Kerry hit the ground running and were three points up with just seven minutes played - Declan O'Sullivan opened the scoring after four minutes and doubled his tally three minutes later while his namesake, Darren, could have goaled for Jack O'Connor's men on six minutes but he blazed his effort over Brian Scanlon's crossbar.
Following some very wasteful shooting, Limerick finally opened their account through Stephen Kelly on 17 minutes but at that stage their more illustrious opponents had added on another point through Bryan Sheehan to leave it 0-4 to 0-1.
Darran O'Sullivan pushed Kerry four points ahead with 18 minutes on the clock before Seamus O'Carroll gave Limerick some hope with an inspirational point three minutes later.
However, the highlight of the opening 35 minutes and perhaps the championship so far came on 26 minutes when Darran O'Sullivan back-heeled the ball into the Limerick net after being set up by Sheehan.
That audicious piece of skill by the Glenbeigh-Glencar clubman, who subsequently had to leave the field of play because of what looked like a hamstring injury, lit up what was an otherwise very pedestrian first-half - a half Kerry ended 1-8 to 0-4 to the good.
Limerick needed to start the second-half well and they did scoring the opening three scores with Stephen Kelly playing like a man possessed.
Sheehan settled Kerry down with a pointed free seven minutes after the break and from there on it was all one-way traffic with corner-back Killian Young contributing to the Kingdom's total with an hour played while wing-back Tomas O Se also got in on the act with a couple of points.
Full-forward Kieran Donaghy, largely anonymous for the most part, put the icing on the cake for Kerry in injury time with a fisted effort but in truth this game was over long before referee Pat McEnaney's final whistle sounded.