Fictional future Earth stuff which will only be of interest or comprehensible to people interested in team sports
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2026 5:12 am
OK, this is extremely rudimentary, and very much a niche interest by ZBB standards.
It is an, as I said, very rudimentary, rough, unimaginative outline of a fictional future team sport in a fictional future Earth. And it's not even really a fictional sport I came up with myself, just a somewhat modified version of an existing sport (Gaelic football).
The outline just describes the basics and how they are like or different from regular Gaelic football, freely referencing regular Gaelic football itself. It won't make much sense to people who have no idea about that.
And it doesn't even describe in detail what exact changes would be made compared to regular Gaelic football, because that would require more knowledge of what impact making the pitches smaller has on the overall playing and watching experience than I have.
I've kept to what is, by now, apparently a personal tradition of mine, and written the description in a kind of legalese.
If you're confused about the references to "basic rules" and "specific playing rules" - the basic rules are these rules that you can see right here, while the specific playing rules are a complete set of rules describing the sport largely without referencing anything else that hasn't been written yet.
If you're wondering about the basic regular (men's) Gaelic football rules this is referring to, there is, of course, an overview at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football#Rules
For a basic impression of the goals of Gaelic games, they look a bit as if a soccer goal and a rugby goal, or perhaps a soccer goal and an American football goal, had a baby:
So, here we go:
Basic Rules of Páirc Bheag
1) Páirc Bheag shall be a team sport broadly based on men's inter-county Gaelic football as it was played during the 2026 Season, with the rules modified to adapt it for pitches approximately the size of association football pitches or American football, rugby union, or rugby league fields, and with other changes as mandated by these basic rules.
2) One of the long-term goals of groups, organizations, or institutions involved in organizing the playing of Páirc Bheag shall be to turn it into one of the major popular team sports in the world.
3) To prevent direct competition with Gaelic football itself, Páirc Bheag shall generally not be played on the island of Ireland. However, the Gaelic Athletic Association may grant special permissions for holding Páirc Bheag competitions on the island of Ireland or for teams representing parts or all of the island of Ireland to take part in competitions held there or elsewhere, and to prepare for such competitions.
4) As soon as the first organized groups or organizations active in organizing Páirc Bheag have taken up their work, a set of more specific rules describing in detail how Páirc Bheag is played, called the specific playing rules, shall be adopted. Those specific playing rules shall start out from the rules of the men's inter-county version of Gaelic football as it was played during the 2026 season, with the changes mandated by these basic rules, and then modify these rules for pitches approximately the size of association football pitches or American football, rugby union, or rugby league fields, in such a way that the resulting sport is as enjoyable to play and watch as possible. They shall be worked out in consulation with as many people with relevant knowledge or experience as possible.
5) Additional sets of playing rules may be drawn up for playing Páirc Bheag on even smaller pitches, or for versions of it played by groups of people with specific needs, or by people who only have access to pitches with different pitch markings than those required by the regular specific playing rules.
6) Both these basic rules and the specific playing rules shall be translated into the languages of as many people who are interested in playing Páirc Bheag as possible. Generally, in all languages, Páirc Bheag shall still be called "Páirc Bheag". But changes in the pronunciation may be made to make the name easier to pronounce for speakers of specific languages. And if there should be a language in which the term "Páirc Bheag" might sound like a word or expression which would be offensive for speakers of that language, a different term may be used in translations into that language.
7) Discrimination shall be actively prevented in Páirc Bheag.
8) There shall be no use of performance-enhancing substances in Páirc Bheag.
9) The specific playing rules may be modified by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag in accordance with their own charters and by-laws, but serious changes shall only be made for particularly good reasons. The organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may change these basic rules only under exceptional circumstances, and the first 9 of these basic rules only in cases of urgent necessity. But the wording of either set of rules may from time to time be changed in a way that does not affect the substance of the rules in order to bring the rules in line with changes in the common use of language.
10) Whenever there is a contradiction between these basic rules and the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag, these basic rules shall take precedence.
11) The specific playing rules shall preferably be identical, and in any case at least as close to identical as possible, for the men's and women's game.
12) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic structure of Gaelic games goals, although they might modify their dimensions, and the basic principle of a goal being worth three points, a score being worth two points if achieved from a long enough distance, and any other score being worth one point.
13) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic principle that disciplinary actions may involve sending players off the pitch without replacing them, temporarily sending players off the pitch without replacing them, cautioning players, granting the opposing team free kicks, and moving free kicks as a penalty for dissent. At levels below the highest level of the sport, disciplinary actions may also involve permanently or temporarily sending players off the pitch while allowing their teams to substitute them.
14) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic rule that the game clock shall be stopped during serious interruptions and that a period of play shall end at the exact moment when the game clock shows the end of the allotted time, with that moment being signalled in a clear way, but only in games where the necessary technology can be used, and where there is a time keeper available. In other games, the principle of an uninterrupted clock and additional time added at the end shall be used, as it was in men's Gaelic football during the 2024 season.
15) The specific playing rules shall prescribe that, in games where the end of a period of play is signalled technologically, if the ball, after being played by a player of the attacking team, travels through the air or along the ground or bounces off the ground at the moment of the signal signalling the end of the period of play, and then reaches the goal either directly or after being touched by a player or players of the defending team, but without being touched by any player of the attacking team, any points scored in this way shall count.
16) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic rule that blood substitutions shall be required in the case of certain specified types of injuries or suspected injuries, that they shall not be counted as part of the regular permitted number of substitutions, and that teams may substitute players who were substituted off in blood substitutions back on later if they have recovered.
17) The specific playing rules shall require that, unlike in Gaelic football, the game score shall be shown and noted as one unified score, adding up all points achieved through various methods of scoring.
18) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for a shot clock as it exists in basketball.
19) The specific playing rules shall allow picking the ball directly off the ground, as is the case in ladies' Gaelic football.
20) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing, but only in the ways provided for by Rule 32, Rule 33, Rule 34, Rule 35, Rule 36, Rule 37, and Rule 38 of these basic rules.
21) There shall be no penalty shootouts in Páirc Bheag. In games where the rules of the competition require a winner, either the specific playing rules or the rules of the competition shall prescribe that, if the game goes into extra time, the first team which scores a specified number of points or more in extra time, in addition to the number of points it had scored in regular time, wins the game. If necessary, the last period of extra time shall be extended until a teams scores the required number of points.
22) The specific playing rules shall require that, if there is an official match report after a game, it must list all scores achieved, with their type, the time when they were achieved, and the names and numbers of the players who achieved them; all disciplinary actions taken other than simple frees; all substitutions; all unusually long interruptions of the game and their causes; and all other unusual or noteworthy events. In match reports for games that, because of unusual circumstances, have to be played under conditions of anonymity, players shall not be named.
23) If Páirc Bheag should become popular and well-known enough that it becomes likely that teams at the highest level will compete with each other to recruit players perceived as valuable, the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may introduce rules limiting the geographic regions from which teams playing at the higher levels are allowed to recruit players. If such rules are introduced, they must take the form that each team covered by such rules is assigned a geographic recruitment region, with boundaries determined based on geographic, administrative, and cultural factors; that each player playing for a team covered by such rules must have a personal connection with at least one place in the team's geographic recruitment region; that a personal connection to a place, for this purpose, shall mean that the player either was born there, or lived there for a significant amount of time at some point in their life before joining the team in question, or has or had a parent or grandparent with such a personal connection to the place; that geographically close geographic recruitment regions may, but do not have to, overlap; and that the boundaries between the geographic recruitment regions of teams regularly competing in the same competition must be drawn in a way that does not unfairly advantage or disadvantage specific individual teams. If such rules are enacted, they must specify all relevant details of the above standards.
24) Páirc Bheag shall generally be an amateur activity, but with exceptions as allowed by these basic rules.
25) It shall not be a violation of the amateur principle if players, match officials, members of the coaching, medical, or organizing staff of teams, or people involved in the organizing of competitions, are financially compensated only for the actual specific time they spend taking part in games or travelling to and from games, or, in the case of people in these groups other than players, for the actual time they spend taking part in activities related to the preparation or aftermath of games, or travelling to and from such activities, as long as the compensation is not higher than approximate hourly wages for the time periods in question paid to mid-level wage earners in the relevant geographic area. If rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag allow for such compensation, they must specify all relevant details.
26) People who take part in the construction, physical preparation, or maintenance of physical structures used for Páirc Bheag may be fully paid professionals, but in that case, they may not be players in organized competitions at the higher levels of Páirc Bheag.
27) Rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may allow it that match officials, members of the coaching, medical, or organizing staff of teams, or people involved in the organizing of competitions, are fully paid professionals, but in that case, such rules must forbid any people who have played Gaelic games in organized competitions on the island of Ireland from being employed in this way before they are at least 33 years old, and such rules must also contain strictly enforced salary caps which prevent, as much as possible, the domination of the sport by unusually wealthy teams.
28) Rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may allow it that players at the higher levels are fully paid professionals, but in that case, such rules must be designed to minimize the risk of serious disagreements or tensions with the Gaelic Athletic Association about this question, and such rules must also contain strictly enforced salary caps which prevent, as much as possible, the domination of the sport by unusually wealthy teams.
29) The Gaelic Athletic Association shall have the right, if it chooses to exercise that right, to be represented in the highest-level organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag, in a way to be determined by those organizations or institutions.
30) The Gaelic Athletic Association shall have the right, if it chooses to exercise that right, to be consulted on all of the most important or serious decisions of the highest-level organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag, especially changes to the specific playing rules or to these basic rules, and the adoption of or any changes to the rules authorized by Rule 23, Rule 25, Rule 27, or Rule 28 of these basic rules.
31) Both the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag and the wider Páirc Bheag community shall generally make serious good-faith efforts to maintain good and friendly relationships with people involved in other organized sports.
32) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing, or authorize the organizers of specific competitions to enact rules providing for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing. In that case, the two permitted forms of video-assisted refereeing shall be ball flight route determination technology and general video refereeing assistance technology. Consulting a form of video-assisted refereeing shall count as a serious interruption in terms of Rule 14.
33) Ball flight route determination technology may be used to determine whether the ball has crossed the goal-line, or whether the ball passed between the posts or not. Ball flight route determination technology may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game.
34) General video refereeing assistance technology is technology allowing for the replay, at regular, slower, or faster speed, forwards or backwards, of video footage taken from one or more cameras recording a game, on a monitor watched by either the main referee of a game or a specialized video referee. General video refereeing assistance technology may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game.
35) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used, the match official using it to watch the replay on a monitor must have full control and authority over which excerpts of footage from which camera, at which speed, appear on their monitor.
36) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used, the relevant rules, either the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag or the rules of the competition in question, shall contain measures designed from discouraging main referees of matches from requesting the use of general video refereeing assistance technology so often that an amount of time which is large relative to the total time allotted for playing a game is taken up by the use of general video refereeing assistance technology during the game.
37) Since, as prescribed by Rule 33 and Rule 34 of these basic rules, video-assisted refereeing may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game, there shall never be a rule or a system of rules allowing teams, players, or team officials to appeal for a video review of decisions of the main referee of a game, as is the practise in some other sports.
38) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used in a game of which video is broadcast or streamed in some way, the relevant rules, either the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag or the rules of the competition in question, shall require that during the use, a life screencast of what is visible on the monitor used for the general video refereeing assistance technology must be shown in the broadcast or stream of the game.
39) In spoken versions of languages other than Irish, the term "Páirc Bheag", if used in the context of talking about the sport of Páirc Bheag, usually, shall be pronounced in the style of the Irish of Galway.
40) Under either the specific playing rules or other rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag it shall usually be permitted for members of the audience to enter the pitch after the end of a game of Páirc Bheag, but this may be banned under unusual circumstances or during times and in parts of the world where there have been recent worrying incidents which would make this inadvisable, or where this rule would violate local laws or other public regulations, or rules set by the owners of individual facilities used for Páirc Bheag.
41) The specific playing rules shall require that if, during a game of Páirc Bheag, there are animals or an animal present on the pitch, the game shall be interrupted until any such animals have been safely removed. But this shall not apply to very small animals which can be generally expected to be either always present in grass or always present anywhere, such as insects.
It is an, as I said, very rudimentary, rough, unimaginative outline of a fictional future team sport in a fictional future Earth. And it's not even really a fictional sport I came up with myself, just a somewhat modified version of an existing sport (Gaelic football).
The outline just describes the basics and how they are like or different from regular Gaelic football, freely referencing regular Gaelic football itself. It won't make much sense to people who have no idea about that.
And it doesn't even describe in detail what exact changes would be made compared to regular Gaelic football, because that would require more knowledge of what impact making the pitches smaller has on the overall playing and watching experience than I have.
I've kept to what is, by now, apparently a personal tradition of mine, and written the description in a kind of legalese.
If you're confused about the references to "basic rules" and "specific playing rules" - the basic rules are these rules that you can see right here, while the specific playing rules are a complete set of rules describing the sport largely without referencing anything else that hasn't been written yet.
If you're wondering about the basic regular (men's) Gaelic football rules this is referring to, there is, of course, an overview at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football#Rules
For a basic impression of the goals of Gaelic games, they look a bit as if a soccer goal and a rugby goal, or perhaps a soccer goal and an American football goal, had a baby:
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Basic Rules of Páirc Bheag
1) Páirc Bheag shall be a team sport broadly based on men's inter-county Gaelic football as it was played during the 2026 Season, with the rules modified to adapt it for pitches approximately the size of association football pitches or American football, rugby union, or rugby league fields, and with other changes as mandated by these basic rules.
2) One of the long-term goals of groups, organizations, or institutions involved in organizing the playing of Páirc Bheag shall be to turn it into one of the major popular team sports in the world.
3) To prevent direct competition with Gaelic football itself, Páirc Bheag shall generally not be played on the island of Ireland. However, the Gaelic Athletic Association may grant special permissions for holding Páirc Bheag competitions on the island of Ireland or for teams representing parts or all of the island of Ireland to take part in competitions held there or elsewhere, and to prepare for such competitions.
4) As soon as the first organized groups or organizations active in organizing Páirc Bheag have taken up their work, a set of more specific rules describing in detail how Páirc Bheag is played, called the specific playing rules, shall be adopted. Those specific playing rules shall start out from the rules of the men's inter-county version of Gaelic football as it was played during the 2026 season, with the changes mandated by these basic rules, and then modify these rules for pitches approximately the size of association football pitches or American football, rugby union, or rugby league fields, in such a way that the resulting sport is as enjoyable to play and watch as possible. They shall be worked out in consulation with as many people with relevant knowledge or experience as possible.
5) Additional sets of playing rules may be drawn up for playing Páirc Bheag on even smaller pitches, or for versions of it played by groups of people with specific needs, or by people who only have access to pitches with different pitch markings than those required by the regular specific playing rules.
6) Both these basic rules and the specific playing rules shall be translated into the languages of as many people who are interested in playing Páirc Bheag as possible. Generally, in all languages, Páirc Bheag shall still be called "Páirc Bheag". But changes in the pronunciation may be made to make the name easier to pronounce for speakers of specific languages. And if there should be a language in which the term "Páirc Bheag" might sound like a word or expression which would be offensive for speakers of that language, a different term may be used in translations into that language.
7) Discrimination shall be actively prevented in Páirc Bheag.
8) There shall be no use of performance-enhancing substances in Páirc Bheag.
9) The specific playing rules may be modified by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag in accordance with their own charters and by-laws, but serious changes shall only be made for particularly good reasons. The organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may change these basic rules only under exceptional circumstances, and the first 9 of these basic rules only in cases of urgent necessity. But the wording of either set of rules may from time to time be changed in a way that does not affect the substance of the rules in order to bring the rules in line with changes in the common use of language.
10) Whenever there is a contradiction between these basic rules and the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag, these basic rules shall take precedence.
11) The specific playing rules shall preferably be identical, and in any case at least as close to identical as possible, for the men's and women's game.
12) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic structure of Gaelic games goals, although they might modify their dimensions, and the basic principle of a goal being worth three points, a score being worth two points if achieved from a long enough distance, and any other score being worth one point.
13) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic principle that disciplinary actions may involve sending players off the pitch without replacing them, temporarily sending players off the pitch without replacing them, cautioning players, granting the opposing team free kicks, and moving free kicks as a penalty for dissent. At levels below the highest level of the sport, disciplinary actions may also involve permanently or temporarily sending players off the pitch while allowing their teams to substitute them.
14) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic rule that the game clock shall be stopped during serious interruptions and that a period of play shall end at the exact moment when the game clock shows the end of the allotted time, with that moment being signalled in a clear way, but only in games where the necessary technology can be used, and where there is a time keeper available. In other games, the principle of an uninterrupted clock and additional time added at the end shall be used, as it was in men's Gaelic football during the 2024 season.
15) The specific playing rules shall prescribe that, in games where the end of a period of play is signalled technologically, if the ball, after being played by a player of the attacking team, travels through the air or along the ground or bounces off the ground at the moment of the signal signalling the end of the period of play, and then reaches the goal either directly or after being touched by a player or players of the defending team, but without being touched by any player of the attacking team, any points scored in this way shall count.
16) The specific playing rules shall keep the basic rule that blood substitutions shall be required in the case of certain specified types of injuries or suspected injuries, that they shall not be counted as part of the regular permitted number of substitutions, and that teams may substitute players who were substituted off in blood substitutions back on later if they have recovered.
17) The specific playing rules shall require that, unlike in Gaelic football, the game score shall be shown and noted as one unified score, adding up all points achieved through various methods of scoring.
18) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for a shot clock as it exists in basketball.
19) The specific playing rules shall allow picking the ball directly off the ground, as is the case in ladies' Gaelic football.
20) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing, but only in the ways provided for by Rule 32, Rule 33, Rule 34, Rule 35, Rule 36, Rule 37, and Rule 38 of these basic rules.
21) There shall be no penalty shootouts in Páirc Bheag. In games where the rules of the competition require a winner, either the specific playing rules or the rules of the competition shall prescribe that, if the game goes into extra time, the first team which scores a specified number of points or more in extra time, in addition to the number of points it had scored in regular time, wins the game. If necessary, the last period of extra time shall be extended until a teams scores the required number of points.
22) The specific playing rules shall require that, if there is an official match report after a game, it must list all scores achieved, with their type, the time when they were achieved, and the names and numbers of the players who achieved them; all disciplinary actions taken other than simple frees; all substitutions; all unusually long interruptions of the game and their causes; and all other unusual or noteworthy events. In match reports for games that, because of unusual circumstances, have to be played under conditions of anonymity, players shall not be named.
23) If Páirc Bheag should become popular and well-known enough that it becomes likely that teams at the highest level will compete with each other to recruit players perceived as valuable, the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may introduce rules limiting the geographic regions from which teams playing at the higher levels are allowed to recruit players. If such rules are introduced, they must take the form that each team covered by such rules is assigned a geographic recruitment region, with boundaries determined based on geographic, administrative, and cultural factors; that each player playing for a team covered by such rules must have a personal connection with at least one place in the team's geographic recruitment region; that a personal connection to a place, for this purpose, shall mean that the player either was born there, or lived there for a significant amount of time at some point in their life before joining the team in question, or has or had a parent or grandparent with such a personal connection to the place; that geographically close geographic recruitment regions may, but do not have to, overlap; and that the boundaries between the geographic recruitment regions of teams regularly competing in the same competition must be drawn in a way that does not unfairly advantage or disadvantage specific individual teams. If such rules are enacted, they must specify all relevant details of the above standards.
24) Páirc Bheag shall generally be an amateur activity, but with exceptions as allowed by these basic rules.
25) It shall not be a violation of the amateur principle if players, match officials, members of the coaching, medical, or organizing staff of teams, or people involved in the organizing of competitions, are financially compensated only for the actual specific time they spend taking part in games or travelling to and from games, or, in the case of people in these groups other than players, for the actual time they spend taking part in activities related to the preparation or aftermath of games, or travelling to and from such activities, as long as the compensation is not higher than approximate hourly wages for the time periods in question paid to mid-level wage earners in the relevant geographic area. If rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag allow for such compensation, they must specify all relevant details.
26) People who take part in the construction, physical preparation, or maintenance of physical structures used for Páirc Bheag may be fully paid professionals, but in that case, they may not be players in organized competitions at the higher levels of Páirc Bheag.
27) Rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may allow it that match officials, members of the coaching, medical, or organizing staff of teams, or people involved in the organizing of competitions, are fully paid professionals, but in that case, such rules must forbid any people who have played Gaelic games in organized competitions on the island of Ireland from being employed in this way before they are at least 33 years old, and such rules must also contain strictly enforced salary caps which prevent, as much as possible, the domination of the sport by unusually wealthy teams.
28) Rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag may allow it that players at the higher levels are fully paid professionals, but in that case, such rules must be designed to minimize the risk of serious disagreements or tensions with the Gaelic Athletic Association about this question, and such rules must also contain strictly enforced salary caps which prevent, as much as possible, the domination of the sport by unusually wealthy teams.
29) The Gaelic Athletic Association shall have the right, if it chooses to exercise that right, to be represented in the highest-level organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag, in a way to be determined by those organizations or institutions.
30) The Gaelic Athletic Association shall have the right, if it chooses to exercise that right, to be consulted on all of the most important or serious decisions of the highest-level organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag, especially changes to the specific playing rules or to these basic rules, and the adoption of or any changes to the rules authorized by Rule 23, Rule 25, Rule 27, or Rule 28 of these basic rules.
31) Both the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag and the wider Páirc Bheag community shall generally make serious good-faith efforts to maintain good and friendly relationships with people involved in other organized sports.
32) In games where the necessary technology can be used, the specific playing rules may, but do not have to, provide for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing, or authorize the organizers of specific competitions to enact rules providing for the use of various forms of video-assisted refereeing. In that case, the two permitted forms of video-assisted refereeing shall be ball flight route determination technology and general video refereeing assistance technology. Consulting a form of video-assisted refereeing shall count as a serious interruption in terms of Rule 14.
33) Ball flight route determination technology may be used to determine whether the ball has crossed the goal-line, or whether the ball passed between the posts or not. Ball flight route determination technology may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game.
34) General video refereeing assistance technology is technology allowing for the replay, at regular, slower, or faster speed, forwards or backwards, of video footage taken from one or more cameras recording a game, on a monitor watched by either the main referee of a game or a specialized video referee. General video refereeing assistance technology may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game.
35) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used, the match official using it to watch the replay on a monitor must have full control and authority over which excerpts of footage from which camera, at which speed, appear on their monitor.
36) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used, the relevant rules, either the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag or the rules of the competition in question, shall contain measures designed from discouraging main referees of matches from requesting the use of general video refereeing assistance technology so often that an amount of time which is large relative to the total time allotted for playing a game is taken up by the use of general video refereeing assistance technology during the game.
37) Since, as prescribed by Rule 33 and Rule 34 of these basic rules, video-assisted refereeing may only be used at the explicit request of the main referee of a game, there shall never be a rule or a system of rules allowing teams, players, or team officials to appeal for a video review of decisions of the main referee of a game, as is the practise in some other sports.
38) If general video refereeing assistance technology is used in a game of which video is broadcast or streamed in some way, the relevant rules, either the specific playing rules of Páirc Bheag or the rules of the competition in question, shall require that during the use, a life screencast of what is visible on the monitor used for the general video refereeing assistance technology must be shown in the broadcast or stream of the game.
39) In spoken versions of languages other than Irish, the term "Páirc Bheag", if used in the context of talking about the sport of Páirc Bheag, usually, shall be pronounced in the style of the Irish of Galway.
40) Under either the specific playing rules or other rules enacted by the organizations or institutions with overall responsibility for Páirc Bheag it shall usually be permitted for members of the audience to enter the pitch after the end of a game of Páirc Bheag, but this may be banned under unusual circumstances or during times and in parts of the world where there have been recent worrying incidents which would make this inadvisable, or where this rule would violate local laws or other public regulations, or rules set by the owners of individual facilities used for Páirc Bheag.
41) The specific playing rules shall require that if, during a game of Páirc Bheag, there are animals or an animal present on the pitch, the game shall be interrupted until any such animals have been safely removed. But this shall not apply to very small animals which can be generally expected to be either always present in grass or always present anywhere, such as insects.