Larry McCarthy, who will take over as the new President of the GAA next year, says pressure to return to inter-county training is not a good thing.

Cork native McCarthy has been living in New York for decades but will return to Ireland to replace John Horan as Uachtaráin in 2021.

Speaking to Valerie Wheeler for Munster GAA, McCarthy identifies with the Club Players Association's call for the dedicated club window from July 31st to October 11th to be respected.

"You want them to use the 10 or 11 weeks that they have been given. Let us breathe. Give us the time to adjust to this new normality of COVID officers. Give families the opportunity to allow their children to go off and play games and be comfortable about it. Whatever about it being safe, people have to be comfortable.

"Pressurising them at this stage into inter-county training or competitions is not a good thing. Give them the time to settle down and let things run and let things run relatively stress-free, I would suggest."

McCarthy has also said the United States is a 'depressing' country to be living in following the killing of George Floyd.

"At some level the pandemic will pass. Racism will take an awful lot longer to pass. It's not inbred, but it's virtually everywhere in this country, no matter what we say about it. I would argue it's virtually everywhere in the world, no matter what we say. There are traces of racism in virtually every society. There's biases everywhere.

"So when you combine COVID and the death of George Floyd, it's not a happy country. And it sort of needs to change, politically and socially."