Rory Cowan plans to loan out top guitar once owned by Niall Horan to up-and-coming bands

THAT'S SOUND. Rory Cowan plans to loan out top guitar once owned by Niall Horan to up-and-coming bands

The One Direction man, from Mullingar, used the Gibson SG acoustic on his last world tour

 FORMER Mrs Brown star Rory Cowan has revealed how he plans to loan out a top of the range guitar once owned by Niall Horan to up-and-coming bands.

The big-hearted actor shelled out €4,000 for the Gibson SG acoustic at Julian Benson’s Cystic Fibrosis Ball last December.

Rory Cowan bought Niall Horan's guitar/ GARRETT WHITE - THE SUN

The One Direction man, from Mullingar, used the guitar on his last world tour.

Rory told us: “It’s too good a guitar to put away in my attic so I want to lend it out to bands who need a guitar for a major show, or an important recording session.

"Niall used it for every date of his last world tour so it would bring some publicity to anyone who used it.”

Any artists interested can contact Rory on his twitter @1rorycowan.

Niall signed the special guitar for Rory

He joked: "I don’t play guitar and being nearly sixty, I’m not going to start now."

The Gibson guitar arrived in Dublin this week direct from Niall’s lock up in LA.

Niall Horan donated the guitar to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis/ GETTY IMAGES - GETTY

Last month, Rory told how Brendan O' Carroll still pays him tens of thousands of euro a year in royalties for Mrs Brown’s Boys — even though the show boss doesn’t have to.

Minted panto star Rory, 59, said: “I get royalties four times a year but I never have any idea when or how much until Brendan sends a text.”

In a wide-ranging chat with the Irish Sun, Rory opened up about Brendan’s generosity and how execs at record firm EMI told him he was mad to walk out on them years ago to work for the comic.