An alternative to irssi + screen is ZNC: http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC After installing ZNC on a server, you can use a native IRC client

An alternative to irssi + screen is ZNC: http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC After installing ZNC on a server, you can use a native IRC client and keep the connectivity usefulness of screen.