Boyband One Direction are due to go on an extended break next year, but Irish heartthrob Niall Horan has reassured fans that it won't be a permanent split. 

During a recent interview with RTE2fm, the 'Drag Me Down' sensation admitted that they are all looking forward to enjoying some well-deserved downtime although after six months or so of not being together it's likely they'll be ready to resume things again:

"We haven't even stuck a date on it. We've always been quite bad at the whole planning side of things. We'll probably just have a conversation in six months and just go 'Shall we go at it again then, is everyone rested enough?'"

Horan went onto add that he hopes to do some travelling on One Direction's hiatus: "I want to do a little bit of travelling, see the places that I've been in but I haven't seen properly and thought 'I'd like to go back there'."

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Watch a recent interview with Horan and Harry Styles here: