diff --git a/code/_helpers/text.dm b/code/_helpers/text.dm
index d4fa4a74bb..cc0eab059d 100644
--- a/code/_helpers/text.dm
+++ b/code/_helpers/text.dm
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@
 /proc/sanitize_old(var/t,var/list/repl_chars = list("\n"="#","\t"="#"))
 	return html_encode(replace_characters(t,repl_chars))
 
+/proc/paranoid_sanitize(t)
+	var/regex/alphanum_only = regex("\[^a-zA-Z0-9# ,.?!:;()]", "g")
+	return alphanum_only.Replace(t, "#")
+
 /*
  * Text searches
  */
diff --git a/code/modules/ext_scripts/irc.dm b/code/modules/ext_scripts/irc.dm
index 4b125a9604..955f24400c 100644
--- a/code/modules/ext_scripts/irc.dm
+++ b/code/modules/ext_scripts/irc.dm
@@ -1,25 +1,10 @@
 /proc/send2irc(var/channel, var/msg)
-	if (config.use_irc_bot)
-		if (config.use_node_bot)
-			shell("node bridge.js -h \"[config.irc_bot_host]\" -p \"[config.irc_bot_port]\" -c \"[channel]\" -m \"[msg]\"")
-		else
-			if (config.irc_bot_host)
-				if(config.irc_bot_export)
-					spawn(-1) // spawn here prevents hanging in the case that the bot isn't reachable
-						world.Export("http://[config.irc_bot_host]:45678?[list2params(list(pwd=config.comms_password, chan=channel, mesg=msg))]")
-				else
-					if(config.use_lib_nudge)
-						var/nudge_lib
-						if(world.system_type == MS_WINDOWS)
-							nudge_lib = "lib\\nudge.dll"
-						else
-							nudge_lib = "lib/nudge.so"
-
-						spawn(0)
-							call(nudge_lib, "nudge")("[config.comms_password]","[config.irc_bot_host]","[channel]","[msg]")
-					else
-						spawn(0)
-							ext_python("ircbot_message.py", "[config.comms_password] [config.irc_bot_host] [channel] [msg]")
+	if(config.use_irc_bot && config.irc_bot_host)
+		for(var/IP in config.irc_bot_host)
+			spawn(0)
+				log_debug("send2irc: Sending [msg] to [channel]")
+				paranoid_sanitize(msg)
+				ext_python("ircbot_message.py", "[config.comms_password] [IP] [channel] [dbcon.Quote(msg)]")
 	return
 
 /proc/send2mainirc(var/msg)
@@ -28,12 +13,11 @@
 	return
 
 /proc/send2adminirc(var/msg)
-	if(config.admin_irc)
-		send2irc(config.admin_irc, msg)
+	var/queuedmsg = "ADMIN - [msg]"
+
+	send2irc(config.admin_irc, queuedmsg)
 	return
 
-
 /hook/startup/proc/ircNotify()
-	send2mainirc("Server starting up on byond://[config.serverurl ? config.serverurl : (config.server ? config.server : "[world.address]:[world.port]")]")
+	send2mainirc("Server starting up on [config.server? "byond://[config.server]" : "byond://[world.address]:[world.port]"]")
 	return 1
-