I don't know much about POE, as I don't like event driven programming, but I think that you don't understand what $kernel->post does:

I think that $kernel->post only puts a message into the event queue, and directly returns - which makes your diagnostic messages rather useless, as you don't see whether the connection attempt succeeded. I guess that the POE::Component::IRC component supplies a connected event or the like, on which you then should post your register message.

All of this might well be wrong, as I don't know much about POE and even less about POE::Component::IRC - I draw my conclusions from my general knowledge of event driven programming ...

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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