The Love Drogheda Gift Card is now available to buy at Payzone locations across Ireland, including in Drogheda
A new partnership between Payzone and Miconex is bringing Town & City Gift Cards, including the Love Drogheda Gift Card, to over 3000 Payzone locations in Ireland.
From today, people will be able to buy the Love Drogheda Gift Card at selected Payzone payment terminals located in convenience stores, newsagents and supermarkets across the country, including prominent retail chains.
In Drogheda, the Love Drogheda Gift Card will be available to buy at Centra Hardmans Gardens, Hannon’s Centra Mell, Mace West Street, XL Laurence and The Max. Introduced by Love Drogheda BID in 2020, the Love Drogheda Gift Card can be spent with over 240 businesses locally, giving a local option for gifts, rewards and incentives.
Once a Town & City Gift Card, such as the Love Drogheda Gift Card, has been purchased at a Payzone location, recipients add their digital Town & City Gift Card to their digital wallet using Miconex’s Love Local app. A full list of Payzone locations offering Town & City Gift Cards is available online.
Delivered by fintech Miconex, Town & City Gift Cards are Mastercard backed and can be spent with registered shops, restaurants, salons, attractions and hotels. Town & City Gift Cards amplify the local offering to encourage local support, locking spend into Irish communities.
Over €17.4m of Town & City Gift Cards were sold in Ireland in 2025. The cards tap into increasing ‘shop local’ sentiment in Ireland.
The Payzone and Miconex partnership is estimated to drive an additional €1m of spend in Irish communities in the first year.
Trevor Connolly, CEO of Love Drogheda BID added: “The Love Drogheda Gift Card has been a part of the Town & City Gift Cards initiative since 2020. It’s the number one choice for gifts, rewards and incentives in the area with almost €1million locked into Drogheda through the gift card to date. The partnership between Town & City Gift Cards and Payzone is powerful because it gives the ability to buy Town & City Gift Cards, including the Love Drogheda Gift Card, at Payzone locations across Ireland. Shopping local transforms communities, and this partnership is key to making that happen.”
Olivia Noonan, head of financial services, Payzone Ireland said: “At Payzone, we're committed to supporting communities across the country and the independent businesses that are at the heart of them. Making Town & City Gift Cards available through our retail network gives consumers another easy, convenient way to ‘support local’.
“With more than 3,000 retail partners across Ireland, we're proud to help make these gift cards more accessible and, in doing so, contribute to keeping more spending within local economies.”
Colin Munro, CEO of Miconex, said: “Shop local sentiment in Ireland is extremely strong. People actively want to support the local businesses in the towns and cities where they live and work, and Town & City Gift Cards make it easy and enjoyable to do just that. What makes Town & City Gift Cards like the Love Drogheda Gift Card unique is the unbeatable local choice, big brands and independent businesses in one card, paired with the unrivalled support for local. Our partnership with Payzone is putting the Love Drogheda Gift Card where people want to buy them, while they’re buying petrol or picking up essentials, enhancing the ease and accessibility of supporting local.”
