If you are having issues connecting to the Apollo Team IRC channel, then use;
chat.freenode.net
Port: 6667
irc.freenode.org and others might be unstable, and if you use chat.freenode.net, you will get a random selected adress, so you get connection.
You also have to have a registered nick, and then enter a password to verify your nick;
/msg nickserv register [password] [email]
Like this below;
/msg nickserv register password123 niding@vampiremail.com
You then get sent an email with instruction, which is basically a command you just copy paste into IRC, and you are done. Takes about 1 minute to do.
And there is also the webbased client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=apollo-team
