Why IRC?
What's so wrong in keeping this to the forum? Not everyone can access IRC when you can, and unless you do not want it public, which it should be, I see no reason it cannot be in this forum. The trial must be public, where everyone will have a chance to see.
The only reason I've been on a few times the past late evenings is I'm in places where its wifi accessible publicly. It's 1 am maybe in the east coast at that time, but here it would be 10 pm pacific coast - yes that's right, i have moved across the country in case you did not notice.
So far only one has accepted the offer on councel, one is considering it, and I have not heard from the third (Allama). I hope to hear response from the other two soon.