Is there a way to incorporate IRC into an UE4 game?

We are looking at advanced chat functionality to integrate into our Unreal project and we were wondering if there was a way to add IRC into the mix. Adding IRC would be incredibly helpful and as far as I know, it is pretty lightweight. It would also be better as we aren’t storing chat as variables and are using an outside source for it.

Does any one have any ideas on how this could be accomplished?