When you're as famous as the various members of One Direction are, there are bound to be some serious intrusions in your life when you're off stage.

However, taking a photo of anyone when they're asleep and posting it to the Internet, whether they're famous or not, is not just an invasion of privacy - it's downright creepy.

The Mullingar man made his feelings on the matter known after a photo was posted to social media of him asleep on a transatlantic flight over the weekend, re-posting the pic and caption to Twitter and saying: "I think this shit is unreal. I mean if you can't sleep on a plane without people taking photos of you,what can u do".

The fan in question was sitting beside Horan on the flight, and what makes it even worse is that it sounds like he was perfectly polite and chatted "about Ireland, LSE, lolla and more" before deciding to catch forty winks.

They also said that "he was sick and asked for no selfies", but decided to take a photo of him anyway.

Who'd be famous, eh? Now, rich... that's another matter.