Ranked against every country we've compared Oman to, highest compatibility first.
“Two nations united by a single shared principle — that weather is simply something that happens to you — but divided on whether the correct response is to rebuild society around it or to pretend, with some dignity, that it isn't happening.”
Oman front-loads its entire working day around a sun that is trying to kill you; Ireland maintains its schedule in quiet defiance of a sky that is merely being disagreeable.
The articles decline to weigh in, which is itself a kind of diplomatic neutrality both cultures might, for entirely different reasons, appreciate.
Ireland has elevated weather complaint into a social ritual with its own etiquette and entry requirements; Oman has rendered the same subject a matter of engineering rather than conversation.
In Oman, punctuality is a function of solar position; in Ireland, it is a function of whether the rain jacket was findable — both systems are, technically, contingent.
The Irish bond over shared meteorological suffering with the warm exclusivity of a support group; Omani social life simply migrates wholesale to the hours when survival is plausible.