How to manually disable/blacklist Maven repository

Question

In my base project I use dependency of JasperReports which has non-existent repository declaration in its pom. When I run every Maven commad there is dependency looking for commons-collection in this Jasper repository so I need to wait for timeout.
This is my base project and is used as dependency in my others projects so again I need to wait for timeout.
Is there are a way to move this repository to blacklisted or override this settings?

Notes:
1.Why it search in Jasper repository, maybe bacause of ranges

<dependency>     <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>     <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>     <version>[2.1,)</version>     <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> 

2.My idea to resolve this problem is to change jasper pom and use proxy repository, but I looking to another option.
3.I use jasperreports 1.3.3 version and I'd like don't change it.

Answer 1

Wouldn't the following tell maven to ignore a specific repository:

    <repository>         <id>repo1.maven</id>         <url>http://repo1.maven.org</url>         <releases>             <enabled>false</enabled>         </releases>         <snapshots>             <enabled>false</enabled>         </snapshots>     </repository>