AND THEN THERE were four.
Kilkenny and Tipperary had already booked All-Ireland semi-final places as provincial champions with Waterford and Galway joining them at the last four stage at the weekend.
Kilkenny and Tipperary are both bidding to reach a final for the second successive year.
Indeed if that duo progress, it’ll be the fifth time in seven years that pairing have contested the All-Ireland senior hurling final.
Galway will be hoping to get back to the decider for the first time since 2012 and their wait for the Liam MacCarthy Cup stretches back to 1988.
Waterford have to go back further as their last triumph to 1959 while their most recent final appearance came in 2008.
But who do you now think will be celebrating in September?
Let us know.