One Direction's Niall 'Is In Love With Local Girl' His dad blabs about 'childhood sweetheart' in magazine interview... One Direction star Niall Horan is in love with a local girl, his father Bobby has revealed to the world. The 18-year-old may well be giving his dad an earful after seeing that he has told the world about his childhood sweetheart in the Irish town of Mullingar, County Westmeath. His dad Bobby told Heat magazine: "There's a local girl that Niall loves. I know he thinks of her as his sweetheart." "She's very attractive, and they're close, but I don't know whether he's made any advances on her yet. I'm not going to embarrass her by giving her name, though. "She would stand her ground with any of these beautiful celebrities. She's a brunette with big brown eyes and pale skin like Niall's. She's from the town but the other end to us, and I always knew Niall has big feelings for her." Bobby continued to pile on the awkwardness for poor Niall, as he went on to discuss teenager's love life with the world. The 51-year-old butcher said: "He never really brought girls home. He had some girls that were friends and they would all sit on the wall outside together, but that was all. "He's never had a real girlfriend... He went to an all-boys school so it was hard to meet girls, but that's certainly changed now. "I don't believe he's a virgin. I couldn't say, and I