Winamp2/Free Trillian are both standards anyway, but probably deserve inclusion on this list.
If I'm not using mIRC (which I will happilly pay for, Khaled is awesome!) then I'm using BitchX. Yeah it's text-based, but it's not all that weird to use. I use it over a shell connection but there are DOS versions, I think.
Also Free Agent for news. Sure it's 7 years old, but it's still got enough to offer that you should at least check it out (I use regular Agent, but I think both versions support yENC).
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