Niall Horan spends time with his mum...and his new maybe-girlfriend!!!

He also walks past a shop selling cut-price 'I love One Direction' posters, which makes us chortle LOADS

One Direction posters on sale for £2? OUTRAGEOUS

"That band look rubbish!" laughed Niall's brother, Greg. "Look! Their posters are only £2...Oh, that's embarrassing"

Niall with Ali McGinley

Niall Horan has finally found some time in his ridiculous schedule to go home and chill out - if only for a couple of days.

He's been busy leaping around the world with his One Direction bandmates - Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles - for months, but has just returned from Australia and New Zealand to spend some time with his mum and brother.

Altogether now: ahhh. 

Niall and his mum. We wonder if she has some cut-price posters in her bag

And it wasn't just his family who were happy to have him home - random shops expressed their love too. Even if it was cut price love.

Niall walked past a shop with a massive 1D poster in the window with the sign "One Direction poster only £2" underneath it. Awkward.

Yep, we find this hilarious. Can you tell?

It was only a flying visit though as yesterday he tweeted, "woo that was close, nearly missed the flight back to london tonight! Last person on the plane, had to leg it!"

He'd previously written, "What's the craic! Havin a great time at home, chilling out! Seeing all the lads and that! Really looking forward to america now!"

NOOOOO! Don't go away again so soon. We don't think we can handle it. Come on! Stay here for a while - it's lovely and sunny...Oh, right. See you later.

He's not only leaving us though, but also rumoured new girlfriend, Ali McGinley, 17.

She's posted a few pictures of herself with Niall on Twitter and told The Sun yesterday, "He genuinely may be one of the nicest men I've ever met. We're close."

She's been subjected to the pretty standard trolling that sadly seems to follow any announcement of romance concerning the One Direction boys, but she also got some nice comments too. One follower wrote, "hi. you're BEAUTIFUL. And I'm so sorry you have to go through all of this s*** with Niall's fans. Best of luck with all this."

To which Ali replied, "Hello love! Thank you thank you, he's rather the stunner, huh? haha"

And when asked directly if they were dating, she wrote: "I can confirm that we're both happy campers, nothing less nothing more xx"

Ooh, sounds like more than camping to us, Ali.

Excuse us, we're off to buy some cut-price One Direction merchandise. Those posters are a bargain.

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