Good IRC client

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Hi all,

I'm thinking about becoming more active on IRC, but I don't really
know what IRC client I should be using.
I've tried XChat in the past and it's ok but kinda clunky, I'm
currently using both Empathy and the Freenode Webchat, but neither are
perfect in their own ways.

So, any suggestions?

I'm after something that integrates nicely with Unity so I can have
alerts in the messaging menu etc :)

Thanks,
~Stephen

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Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin
http://stephen.rees-carter.net/