This has already been worked on a while back (mostly by Secrets I think), but was given up on after being unable to resolve a few crash issues from it. There are still some branches on the SVN for it that were never merged with the main trunk:
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqem...%2FUCS_IRC-Bot
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqem..._IRC-Instanced