Revise was started in Kilkenny in 2007 by Carl Lynch, a Maths teacher at St Kieran's College. The idea was simple — and it has not changed since: students need a real place to work, with real teachers, and a structure that makes serious study possible.
Carl Lynch has been teaching Maths since 1992 and has run Revise.ie since 2007. He is still in the classroom every day at St Kieran's College in Kilkenny, which is the reason the centre runs the way it does: like a school, not a business.
The Junior Cert higher group is taught by Gerry Walsh, with twelve years of teaching experience. Other subjects on Christmas and Easter courses are taught by working secondary teachers we have worked with for years and trust.
Carl's son Ronan, also a teacher at St Kieran's, helps run the operation. The centre is, in every sense, a family-run school — and it intends to stay that way.
Every grind and every course is taught by a working secondary teacher, in a real classroom, with students sitting beside each other. No Zoom calls, no video libraries, no app subscriptions. That is the whole offer, and it always will be.
If a student withdraws from study or grinds, we refund the unused portion — no forms, no medical certs, no fine print. The odd missed night isn't refunded; a genuine withdrawal always is. It is the policy we have run since 2007, and it is non-negotiable.
If a topic is on the State Examinations Commission syllabus, it gets taught. If a question type has come up in past papers, it gets practised. No corners cut, no chapters skipped — that is the deal we have made with our students for twenty years.