I find this a very useful guide for setting up weechat;
http://kmacphail.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-weechat-with-freenode-basics.html (http://kmacphail.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-weechat-with-freenode-basics.html)
Thanks for this link mrneilypops, I have been wanting to check out weechat...