Dublin City Councillors are considering re-naming the Millennium Spire, the Nelson Mandela Pillar.
A member of the public wrote to the Mayor of Dublin suggesting it would be a fitting tribute, especially because of its proximity to the Dunnes Stores where workers refused to handle fruit imported from apartheid South Africa.
Mandela was made a free man of Dublin city in 1988, the first capital in the world to bestow such an honour on him.
However rules state that monuments can only be dedicated to people who are dead for at least 20 years.
But today an 8 man committee of Dublin City Council will discuss the proposed Nelson Mandela pillar, before deciding whether or not the idea warrants further exploration.
