Sythe's IRC was taken down a while ago, but I would like to see it up and running again. I wasn't here for for the official IRC, but I've enjoyed unofficial IRCs in the past. Also I believe clashfan sort of molded into an off-topic mod. It says he is an IRC mod, but he has the perms of an off-topic mod. No biggie there.
It wouldn't be fair on Clashfan to have all his permissions torn away because the IRC wasn't active enough or whatever other reason there was for it to be taken down. If he's still on the staff, he must be doing something valuable like helping clean the forums or assist in discussions, etc. Otherwise he'd have been removed.