generates notifications on your desktop (ubuntu/Gnu Linux X environment) when something happens in a channel on irssi (on another server) using ssh.

notify-irc-irssi

#!/bin/bash 
# 
# will show local notifications when something happens on IRC (using irssi)
#
# Usage:
#
# 1) make sure you have passwordless access to the server where irsii is running
#    (hint: ssh-keygen & ssh-copy-id)
# 2) type in irssi: /set autolog on
# 3) look in ~/irclogs which channel you want to log (on the server running irssi)
# 4) run this script upon boot e.g.:
#      - in /etc/rc.local using 'nohup ./notify-irssi'
#      - put this in your crontab: * * * * * ps aux| grep notify-irc-irssi | grep -v grep || nohup /home/sqz/bin/notify-irc-irssi &

IRSSISERVER="[email protected]"
LOGFILE="/home/you/irclogs/FOO/#foo.log"
IGNORELINES='(\[timelog\]|somekeyword|<@you>)'

ssh $IRSSISERVER tail -f $LOGFILE | while read msg; do
    echo "$msg" | grep -vE $IGNORELINES &>/dev/null &&
    DISPLAY=:0.0 notify-send -t 2000 -a irc "$msg" &
  done