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It’s been a while now that I have been using irssi and screen to connect to IRC, and I have always found it annoying that I could never get notifications for nick highlights working. I have since stumbled upon a couple of irssi and screen commands that now allow this set-up to ring the terminal bell on any of my configured highlights.

irssi
/set bell_beeps ON
/set beep_msg_level MSGS HILIGHT
/set beep_when_window_active ON
/set beep_when_away ON

screen (toggle visual/audible bell)
Ctrl+a Ctrl+g

gnome-terminal
Edit -> Profile Preferences -> General -> Terminal Bell