Dublin City Council has voted to rename Archbishop Dermot Ryan Park, aka, Merrion Square. Almost no-one knows it is called after the former Archbishop of Dublin but the name is to be changed all the same because Archbishop Ryan is named and shamed in the Murphy report.

One councillor has suggested that it be renamed Oscar Wilde Park instead. Wilde was raised in a house opposite the park and there is a statue in his memory in the park. But not alone should the park not be named after him, his statue should be removed as well in the interests of consistency.

If Dermot Ryan is shamed forever because of his woefully inadequate response to the abuse allegations that came his way, then Oscar Wilde is doubly shamed because Wilde had a fondness for 'rent boys', that is, boy prostitutes.

If the name of the park is to be changed, then in logic it can't possibly be renamed after Wilde and Wilde's statue should be removed from the park. (A horrible statue it is too).

Why has Wilde's exploitation of young, vulnernable, working class boys not sullied his name forever? Does his undoubted talent somehow protect him? Does the fact he was a great writer and wit give him a pass?

The fact that Dermot Ryan was a 'man of the cloth' no longer gives him a pass. Wilde did worse than Ryan. His talent should not be allowed to protect his reputation. The fact that it does, shows our double standard about the issue of sexual abuse.

It's like the free-pass so many of Roman Polanski's supporters have given him. Do artists have a licence to do as they please?