The service began with a Home Care initiative from 1989, originally based in a temporary building in the grounds of the Capuchin Friary on Station Road, Raheny, providing specialist advisory and support services to patients and their families in their own home.
The Capuchins later donated their friary garden for the building of a permanent Hospice, allowing construction to start in 1993 - delivering an office and meeting space for the Home Care team and a purpose-built Hospice Day Care Centre.
The Hospice receives referrals for people with cancer or motor neurone disease and all services are available at no cost to residents of North Dublin City and County regardless of their financial, social or religious status.
Partial funding for the service comes from various sources, including the Health Service Executive and its predecessor organisations, the Irish Hospice Foundation, the Irish Cancer Society and local support groups - and the Hospice notes that it depends to a large extent on charitable contributions.
In early 2007, the national TV broadcaster, RTÉ, screened a multi-week documentary about the work of the Hospice, and its clients, with individual stories.