Cork council's vehicles travelled equivalent of nine trips to the moon and back in 2020

Cork County Council's fleet of vehicles travelled 6,856,490kms last year and the fleet consumption of fuel during that period was 977,735.5 litres

The council's vehicle fleet gobbles up 33% of all the energy consumed by the local authority. File picture: Andy Gibson.

Cork County Council's fleet of vehicles travelled 6,856,490kms last year – the equivalent of nearly nine times to the moon and back - and the local authority supplied enough water to fill nearly 25,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

These are just some of the interesting facts published by what is the largest local authority in the country on its activities for 2020.